News tagged with wing membrane
Robo-bats with metal muscles may be next generation of remote control flyers
Tiny flying machines can be used for everything from indoor surveillance to exploring collapsed buildings, but simply making smaller versions of planes and helicopters doesn't work very well. Instead, researchers ...
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Amazing skin gives sharks a push
Shark skin has long been known to improve the fish's swimming performance by reducing drag, but now George Lauder and Johannes Oeffner from Harvard University show that in addition, the skin generates thrust, ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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50 million year old cricket and katydid fossils hint at the origins of insect hearing
How did insects get their hearing? A new study of 50 million year-old cricket and katydid fossils — sporting some of the best preserved fossil insect ears described to date— help trace the evolution ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 03, 2012 |
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UK HealthCare surgeons are first to perform novel procedures prior to transplant
Surgeons at UK HealthCare recently became the first ever to perform two specific procedures together as a bridge to lung transplantation. Wanda Craig, of Lexington, Ky., is the first patient in history to receive these procedures, ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Borrowing from brightly-colored birds: Physicists develop lasers inspired by nature
Researchers at Yale University are studying how two types of nanoscale structures on the feathers of birds produce brilliant and distinctive colors. The researchers are hoping that by borrowing these nanoscale ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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The long and short of sperm tails
A team of biologists in Japan has uncovered an unexpected role for mitochondria1, the power houses of cells, in the development of sperm in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Aug 05, 2011 |
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Why patients with epidermolysis bullosa suffer extreme pain
For patients suffering from epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a hereditary skin disease, even a gentle touch is extremely painful. Now Dr. Li-Yang Chiang, Dr. Kate Poole and Professor Gary R. Lewin of the Max Delbruck Center for ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 08, 2011 |
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The wonders of graphene on display
Graphene, discovered in 2004 at The University of Manchester by Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov, is one of the world's most versatile materials, and is already being used in such varied ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Scientists uncover role for cell scaffold in tumor formation
A group of scientists at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, in Portugal, have uncovered a surprising link between the cell's skeleton and organ size. The team, led by Florence Janody, show in the journal ...
Jun 06, 2011 |
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Microstructure-induced biomechanical responses of dragonfly wing veins
Wang's research team discovered the sandwich microstructure of dragonfly wing veins1 and recently revealed the organic junction between these longitudinal veins and membranes of the dragonfly wing2. Based on observed mic ...
Jun 03, 2011 |
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Bat researchers discover new species on St. Vincent island
(PhysOrg.com) -- At first glance, the bat captured in St. Vincent looked like a common type found in South America.
May 24, 2011 |
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