Bioinspiration & Biomimetics latest papers
- Active underwater electrolocation method with PSO-based adaptive threshold estimation 12. May 2025Target detection and localization are essential capabilities for underwater vehicles to perceive and understand the underwater environment. In turbid, dark and semi-enclosed waters, such as underwater caves, acoustic and optical sensing devices face serious problems of reverberation and attenuation of the detection range, respectively. Weakly electric fish use their electric organ in the tail to […]Lv Luting, Ma Teng, Quan Jingyi, Fan Jiajia and Li Ye
- Bio-inspired multimodal soft grippers: a review 8. May 2025In nature, organisms have evolved diverse grasping mechanisms to perform vital functions such as hunting and self-defence. These time-tested biological structures, including the arms of octopuses and the trunks of elephants, offer valuable inspiration for designing multimodal soft grippers that can tackle diverse tasks in various environments. Similar to their biological counterparts, these grippers must […]Minshi Liang, Jiaqi Zhu, Xingxing Ke, Zhiping Chai, Han Ding and Zhigang Wu
- Bioinspired adaptive visual servoing control for quadrotors 8. May 2025Since every flight ends in a landing and every landing is a potential crash, deceleration during landing is one of the most critical flying maneuvers. Here we implement a recently-discovered insect visual-guided landing strategy in which the divergence of optical flow is regulated in a step-wise fashion onboard a quadrotor for the task of visual […]Sander T Hazelaar, Chenyao Wang, Christophe de Wagter, Florian T Muijres, Guido C H E de Croon and Matthew Yedutenko
Science Magazine
- Institutionalizing politicized science | Science 8. May 2025The opening months of the Trump administration represent a historic disruption to America’s scientific agencies. Staff have been fired or reassigned in the name of efficiency, resulting in chaos. Grants have been canceled mid-project for featuring the wrong words. “Pauses” and “reviews” are designed to block spending, in the hope that Congress will make the […]
- Bespoke plant glycoconjugates for gut microbiota-mediated drug targeting | Science 1. May 2025The gut microbiota of mammals possess unique metabolic pathways with untapped therapeutic potential. Using molecular insights into dietary fiber metabolism by the human gut microbiota, we designed a targeted drug delivery system based on bespoke ...
- Aberrant basal cell clonal dynamics shape early lung carcinogenesis | Science 1. May 2025Preinvasive squamous lung lesions are precursors of lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC). The cellular events underlying lesion formation are unknown. Using a carcinogen-induced model of LUSC with no added genetic hits or cell type bias, we find that ...
Nature Journal
- My PhD adviser was fired and I was collateral damage. I learnt how to build resilience into graduate school 13. May 2025Nature, Published online: 13 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01461-wStudents and institutions should treat PhD degrees as they would a job.Donovan Dennis
- US researchers must stand up to protect freedoms, not just funding 13. May 2025Nature, Published online: 13 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01466-5Curtailment of freedoms and disregard for the rule of law in the United States is destroying the ability of science to serve the nation’s, and the world’s, interests. Researchers can take action.Andrew M. Leifer
- Where do comets come from? 13. May 2025Nature, Published online: 13 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01342-2The interstellar origins of space’s dirty snowballs, and debunking a myth about maternal crustaceans, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archive.
Biomimicry 3.8
- Synapse: Spark Biomimicry Ideas 26. August 2019Synapse by Biomimicry 3.8 is an environment for our staff to share their expertise and thought leadership in biomimicry with the world. It’s our way of inviting you to join us […] The post Synapse: Spark Biomimicry Ideas appeared first on Biomimicry 3.8.jessica
- Beautiful News South Africa implements Biomimicry into Town Design 27. June 2018“For us to coexist with nature I think we really need to humble ourselves and learn from nature,” Swain says. As the founder of the NPO BioWise, she uses biomimicry […] The post Beautiful News South Africa implements Biomimicry into Town Design appeared first on Biomimicry 3.8.austin
- Impressive Impact: 2016-2018 Cohort Grads Ready to Lead 24. April 2018The newest set of Certified Biomimicry Professionals graduated during a ceremony in Kona, Hawaii The post Impressive Impact: 2016-2018 Cohort Grads Ready to Lead appeared first on Biomimicry 3.8.jenna