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Cool Jobs: Moved by life
Biologically inspired robots travel — naturally
Posted in Animals, Physics, Technology & Engineering
Tagged Adaptation, animals, bacteria, batteries, biomimicry, Carnegie Mellon University, cool jobs, cownose ray, Dan Goldman, evolution, feature, flow, fluid, flying squirrel, forces, Gecko, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hilary Bart-Smith, lizard, locomotion, mechanics, Metin Sitti, motion, movement, propulsion, ray, robot, robotics, sand, sandfish, sine wave, skink, surface tension, Teflon, thrust, University of Virginia, VORTEX, water strider, wax
Deadly new flu
The germ responsible carries genes from other flu viruses
Posted in Body & Health
Tagged Ana Fernandez-Sesma, animals, Beijing, bird flu, cells, chicken, China, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, gene swapping, genetics, getinvolved, H7N9, infection, infectious disease, Influenza, microbes, microbiology, Rongbao Gao, Shanghai, topstories, virus, World Health Organization, zoonotic
No more bubble trouble
Dolphin’s clicks help scientists sort through confusing underwater noises
Posted in Physics
Tagged acoustics, animals, birds, bubbles, communications, dolphins, echoes, echolocation, engineering, getinvolved, Grant Deane, mammals, mathematics, nonlinear, physics, reptiles, reptiles/birds/mammals, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, sonar, sound, Timothy Leighton, University of Southampton
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