Tag: grasshoppers
Paper Digest: Ten Biomechanical Animal Joints Enable Extreme Performance
The amazing design structures in organisms provide engineers with inspiring templates for creating better products.
Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species
If redwoods are a byword for great stature, grasshoppers represent the opposite. And what insect could be more common or familiar?
Wise Oysters, Galloping Sea Stars, and More: Biological Marvels Keep Coming
There is more going on in biology than is dreamt of in materialist philosophy.
Masters of Physics in the Living World
Plants and animals display proficiency in dynamics — the physics of movement.