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A new design for eye and brain implants draws its inspiration from nature. UO researchers have grown rodent retinal neurons on a fractal-patterned electrode, one that mimics the repeating branching pattern in which neurons naturally grow. It’s a step closer to making a bio-inspired bionic eye, a longstanding goal for UO […]
Sharks have many biological features that can be used and implemented to create real-world solutions. One of them is their skin, which has friction forces that can help with mobile vehicles’ drag reduction forces, and reduce friction in certain fabrics. As the passage says, “The project findings […]
While the advancements and technological discoveries humans make may seem useful to us, they often impact other animals or elements in our world very differently. We typically only acknowledge our own needs and design solutions for those, without realizing what affect it may have elsewhere. One example of this are the […]
People worldwide are living longer. According to WHO, one in six people in the world will be aged 60 years or over by 2030. However, aging increases vulnerability to a wide range of human disorders, including cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and neurodegenerative diseases. Roughly two-thirds of the 150,000 people who die […]
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, one of the main consequences being rising sea levels. Beyond putting human civilization at risk, rising sea levels have heavily contributed to the near extinction of oyster-reefs. In fact, oyster-reef abundance has already declined ∼85% globally over the past […]
This article describes a discovery that aims for safer vehicles. Another goal was for it to reduce congestion on the roads. It describes the Eporo robot car which is modeled on the schooling behavior of fish. This makes it easier to avoid collisions and concentric zones for […]
A group of researchers led by Toshiyuki Nakagaki from the Hokkaido University in Japan, placed Physarum polycephalum in a petri-dish scattered with oat flakes. The position of food scraps was deliberately placed to replicate the locations of some of the most visited site […]
Like in many cases, the inspiration of a kingfisher bird for Shinkansen trains was rooted in a problem that needed to be solved. People realized that Shinkansen trains were very loud, and although they were fast, this was an issue causing a lot of disturbance. In order […]
Using CRISPR gene editing, rats with higher levels of oxytocin were more likely to be social and try to meet new rats.
“In a word, the ability to meet a new friend, transform the episodic information into memory, and store it for a long time could be partially regulated by […]
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I imagine that the neurological circuits underlying these processes are governed by both 2d spacing maps with their brains as…
to reduce the impact of car accidents, it may be possible to study the force diverting physics of cockroaches to…
you see this type of head-bobbing stability in many avian creatures related to pigeons like chickens. the head ability to…
not like they taught horses how to run! this is an example of convergent evolution where both sea creatures and…
The brain functions in a similar way with neuronal connections. our brains are able to utilize the multiplicity of connections…