Emerging Technologies
新研究或启发高性能储水材料的仿生学设计
Futurity报道，研究人员通过使用高分辨率显微镜和三维技术，首次展现了沙鸡羽毛的内部结构，揭示了沙鸡羽毛高容水量的秘密。研究团队预计，其发现将支持需要控制吸收、安全保留和轻松释放液体的工程设计。可能的应用包括用于收集和保留沙漠地区雾气和露水的水瓶和集水网等。
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Emerging Technologies
Feathers could hold the secret to better water bottle designs. Here's how
Researchers have captured a 3D view of sandgrouse feathers which could underpin future engineering designs for things like water bottles, says Futurity.
Emerging Technologies
Old dog training methods teach robots new tricks
A team from the John Hopkins Computational Interaction and Robotics Laboratory have been training robots using teaching tricks classically used on dogs.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Movement help cement your memories. Here's how
Cognitive scientists have now learned that whether and how something moves contributes to our long-term visual memory of that thing.
This is what 'free will' looks like in your brain
Ground-breaking research has been able to monitor the brain activity of people as they make a free choice.