Squid-inspired robot swims with nature’s most efficient marine animals
Scientists at the University of Southampton and University of Edinburgh have developed a flexible underwater...
Latch, load and release: Elastic motion makes click beetles click, study finds
IMAGE: Illinois researchers Aimy Wissa, Marianne Alleyne and Ophelia Bolmin studied the motion of a click...
Scientists discover bizarre new mode of snake locomotion
IMAGE: The brown tree snake, which is nocturnal, was accidentally introduced to Guam in the late...
UCF engineering and biology researchers collaborate to aid coral reef restoration
IMAGE: A uniaxial compression test is performed on Acropora cervicornis coral skeleton. view more Credit: Mahmoud...
In plants, channels set the rhythm
Like animals, plants have 'molecular switches' on the surface of their cells that transduce a...
Bionic idea boosts lithium-ion extraction
IMAGE: Metal ion sieving using a bioinspired nanochannel membrane view more Credit: XIN Weiwen Lithium is...
Comb of a lifetime: a new method for fluorescence microscopy
IMAGE: 2D arrangement of 44,400 light stopwatches enables scan-less fluorescence lifetime imaging view more Credit: Tokushima...
Spontaneous robot dances highlight a new kind of order in active matter
IMAGE: When a swarm of smarticles is made to interact in a confined space, they form...
High-speed atomic force microscopy takes on intrinsically disordered proteins
IMAGE: Structural and dynamic features of three IDPs (NTAIL, PNT and Sic1) revealed by HS-AFM imaging. ...
Pulp succeeded in diet? Determining the slenderization of wood pulp
IMAGE: Pixel-resolved distribution analysis shows that the optical retardation decreases with increasing degree of pulp fibrillation....