Gene switches make prairie voles fall in love : Nature News & Comment - 2 views
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Marcus Maertens on 05 Jun 13Is love just an epigenetic mechanism?
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What happens when you take two random ACT studies and cross them over? - 3 views
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Mobile phone-controlled cyborg cokcroaches!
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I've seen the same thing (almost) in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode! -
Also good for our next app .... dock a roach onto the iss!!!!
Silk Pavilion / MIT Media Lab - 2 views
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biological swarm approach to 3-D printing
Enzymes grow artificial DNA - Synthetic strands with different backbones replicate and ... - 0 views
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Scientists have developed artificial genetic molecules with different structural backbones (XNA, TNA) and/ or a different nucleic acid alphabet. (from April 2012)
Nice, eye-opening figure about wasting food - 0 views
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"Roughly one quarter of all the water that humans take from the planet goes into food that nobody eats"... and such
Giant squid filmed in Pacific depths, Japan scientists report - 2 views
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First video footage of a giant squid about to released
Sounds during sleep can boost memory - 1 views
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For all of us who want to become smart without hard work :-D
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Omelette du fromage?
Nano-Suit Protects Bugs From Space-Like Vacuums - 0 views
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Electron microscope studies reveal that the electron bombardment leads to polymerization of the outer layer of some insect larva's skin and protects them from dehydration. Artificial method to create this effect tested as well. Allows observation of living animals under electron microscope! Question: can the insects still breath after they are back in air? :-S
Robotic insects make first controlled flight - 3 views
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The Robobee takes off without guide wires! It is still powered via a wire, and the control is done with the help of a VICON system and on an external computer, but this still is an amazing feat!
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The way they make this thing is just as impressive. The manufacturing technique is "pop-up book" folding, a method that has been developed by the same group and that allows a two dimensional monolithic MEMS structures to be easily assembled into a 3D structure. I actually put this as an item of the "Technology List 2020" on the wiki this morning.
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I agree, manufacturing is the amazing thing here ..... as soon as the power-consumption/density problem is solved these things will really take off :)
New Supergel Has Strange Biological Properties - 0 views
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Linked to the discussion we had last week on elastically non-linear polymers. The inverted liquid->solid phase transition might be interesting and the material might be self-healing just above the transition.
Frozen Frog :) - 5 views
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Icing organs... Why scientists are so near and yet so far from being able to cryopreserve organs
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Nice overview!
Mother Nature as Engineer: 9 Design Tricks Borrowed From Biology | Wired Science | Wire... - 5 views
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nothing new but nice pictures
Rap Guide to Evolution - 1 views
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Performance. Feedback. Revision.
Outgrow and outcompete strategies work in both nature and business - 4 views
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Nice point of view on the evolutionary arms race
Bumblebees tackling the travelling salesman problem - 2 views
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Nice article on how bumblebees optimize their path from flower to flower.
MIT constructs synthetic analog computers inside living cells | ExtremeTech - 0 views
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Just a small step till we can compute trajectories in our blood cells...
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Really cool research. I think that the potential of analog computing has been neglected for quite a long time. Building the whole thing within a single cell makes it only more awesome.
Slime mould could make memristors for biocomputers - 1 views
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Slime powered transistors with memory.
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