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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 more
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Toxicological effects of the environmental pollutant perfluoronanoic acid on the ground-dwelling arthropod Solenopsis invicta

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), widely employed in surfactants, coatings, plastics, corrosion inhibitors, and fire-extinguishing agents, is less regulated than PFOS or PFOA but displays higher bioaccumulation and potential toxicity.
Wenxuan Wang, Mingrong Liang, Yangting Ou, Xiangrui Wang, Yunbo Song, Huimei Chen, Jingxin Hong, Yuling Liang, Yongyue Lu   +8 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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The Polymorphism of Ants.* [PDF]

Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1908
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
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Outsmarted by ants [PDF]

Nature, 2005
An elegant orientation solution that is used by ants to get back to their nest eluded even Richard Feynman, suggesting that social insects could help to solve many of our engineering problems.
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Predation success by a plant-ant indirectly favours the growth and fitness of its host myrmecophyte [PDF]

, 2013
Mutualisms, or interactions between species that lead to net fitness benefits for each species involved, are stable and ubiquitous in nature mostly due to "byproduct benefits" stemming from the intrinsic traits of one partner that generate an indirect ...
Roux, Olivier, Malé Pierre-Jean G., Lauth Jérémie, Leroy, Céline, Dejean, Alain, Rossi, V., Jérémie Lauth, Lauth, J., Orivel, J., Male, P. J. G., Céréghino, Régis, Céréghino Régis, Alain Dejean, Pierre-Jean G Malé, Malé, Pierre-Jean G., Vivien Rossi, Rossi, Vivien, Orivel Jérôme, Cereghino, R., Rossi Vivien, Lauth, Jérémie, Olivier Roux, Dejean Alain, Jérôme Orivel, Orivel, Jérôme, Dejean, A., Régis Céréghino, Roux Olivier, Céline Leroy, Leroy Céline   +29 more
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Functionalized Biomimetic Scaffolds for Human‐Derived Auditory Neural Circuit Construction

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In Vitro Auditory Circuit Model. ABSTRACT Damage to auditory circuits results in sensorineural hearing loss. However, the scarcity of human inner ear tissue significantly hinders the development of therapies to preserve auditory function, creating a critical need for reliable in vitro models.
Pan Feng, Qian Zhu, Yusong Wang, Hao Rong, Xu Zhang, Fuchun Wang, Tianqi Yu, Wenxuan Wang, Jing Li, Lei Tian, Menghui Liao, Renjie Chai, Yangnan Hu   +12 more
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Orthogonal methods based ant colony search for solving continuous optimization problems [PDF]

, 2008
Research into ant colony algorithms for solving continuous optimization problems forms one of the most significant and promising areas in swarm computation.
Jun Zhang, Yun Li 李 耘, Hu, X., Xiao-min Hu, Li, Y., Zhang, J.   +5 more
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Covalently Linked Peptides and Membrane Potential Enable CyaA Segment Translocation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Using a newly developed Droplet Interface Bilayer‐Pipette assay, the authors show that two segments of the CyaA toxin cross membranes by distinct mechanisms. One segment translocates spontaneously, whereas the translocation of the other depends on membrane potential.
Gaia Scilironi, Nicolas Carvalho, Jacinthe Frangieh, Corentin Léger, Dorothée Raoux‐Barbot, J. Iñaki Guijarro, Daniel Ladant, Sophie Cribier, Nicolas Rodriguez, Alexandre Chenal   +9 more
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