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Moth‐Wing‐Inspired Multifunctional Metamaterials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This study develops a moth‐wing‐inspired heterogeneous metamaterial that achieves synergistic broadband sound absorption, mechanical energy dissipation, and thermal insulation within a lightweight architected framework. Combining bioinspired gradient design, genetic‐algorithm optimization, and additive manufacturing, the bionic heterogeneous acoustic ...
Haoran Pei, Hang Yang, Ning Zhang, Tian Li, Xinxin Wang, Miao Zhao, Shuwei Ding, Xin Wang, Qinniu Lv, Zijie Xu, Yinghong Chen, Xinwei Li, Wei Zhai   +12 more
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Effects of predation risks of bats on the growth, development, reproduction, and hormone levels of Spodoptera litura

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Predation is a powerful selection pressure that shapes predator–prey interactions. Due to long-term interactions, moths have developed hearing to detect the echolocation calls of bats.
Wenjun Zhang, Wenjun Zhang, Yingying Liu, Yingying Liu, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhiqiang Wang, Tingting Lin, Tingting Lin, Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng, Tinglei Jiang, Tinglei Jiang, Tinglei Jiang   +13 more
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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling Global Diversity of Patescibacteriota and Functional Interactions with Host Microbes

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Patescibacteriota represents a diverse group of ultra‐small epibiotic bacteria, which is largely overlooked. By integrating ribosomal protein S3‐based community profiling with MAG‐based metabolic potential analyses, this study provides new insights into their distribution, diversity, and potential interactions with other bacteria across diverse ...
Yanhan Ji, Xu Liu, Shuai Zhao, Sihan Zhou, Yufan Yang, Ping Zhang, Yu Shi, Wei Qin, Guibing Zhu, Yongguan Zhu, Yanzheng Gao, Jiandong Jiang, Baozhan Wang   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Principles for Rigorous Design and Application of Synthetic Microbial Communities

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
SynComs are artificially designed to enable inter‐species metabolic interactions, metabolic division of labor, and ecological interactions that can elicit phenotypes like colonization stability and environmental adaptation. This systematic review explores the processes used to construct SynComs, the assessment of the mechanisms of metabolic interaction
Yuxiao Zhang, Minyu Jing, Lihui Lyu, Li Nie, Xihui Xu, Ru Sun, Xiyuan Xu, Siyu Chen, Shuobing He, Yumeng Zhang, Ping Huang, Weijie Luo, Jiaojiao Liang, Guifeng Gao, Kunkun Fan, Teng Yang, Liyan Zhang, Xiao Fu, Sarah M. Allard, Jack A. Gilbert, Jiabao Zhang, Haiyan Chu   +21 more
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Small predators dominate fish predation in coral reef communities.

PLoS Biology, 2022
Ecosystem processes are challenging to quantify at a community level, particularly within complex ecosystems (e.g., rainforests, coral reefs). Predation is one of the most important types of species interactions, determining several ecosystem processes ...
Michalis Mihalitsis, Renato A Morais, David R Bellwood   +2 more
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Solid Harmonic Wavelet Bispectrum for Image Analysis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The Solid Harmonic Wavelet Bispectrum (SHWB), a rotation‐ and translation‐invariant descriptor that captures higher‐order (phase) correlations in signals, is introduced. Combining wavelet scattering, bispectral analysis, and group theory, SHWB achieves interpretable, data‐efficient representations and demonstrates competitive performance across texture,
Alex Brown, Mathilda Avirett‐Mackenzie, Carolin Villforth, Georgios Exarchakis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Male-biased predation and its effect on paternity skew and life history in a population of common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Differences in predation risk may exert strong selective pressures on life history strategies of populations. We investigated the potential for predation to shape male mating strategies in an arboreal folivore, the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus ...
Jane L DeGabriel, Ben D Moore, William J Foley, Christopher N Johnson   +3 more
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Predators and Cranks [PDF]

American Journal of Neuroradiology, 2013
A few years ago I received an e-mail invitation to write a review article on MR spectroscopy from a journal I did not know. Thinking that it was a good project for one of my visiting research fellows, I accepted.
openaire   +2 more sources

Feline‐Inspired Robot Enabled by Combustion‐Driven Actuators for Agile Motion and High‐Payload Obstacle Traversal

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by nature's competitive maneuvers, this study introduces a combustion‐driven soft actuator that powers a multi‐modal “Jump‐and‐Fly Catbot” (JFC). With millisecond response, high‐force output (over 70 times its weight) and precise control (error within 5%), the robot can jump, fly, hover, and escape from challenging environments, achieving ...
Hongkuan Ma, Yang Yang, Zhiguo He, Hongliang Ren, Pengcheng Jiao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source