Tag: sensors
How We Balance Water and Sodium to Maintain Life
On their own, the laws of nature don’t tend toward life. To stay alive, living things utilize ingenious solutions.
Paper Digest: A Robot Is Built Using Cockroach Biomimicry
The understanding of what it takes to build complex systems sheds light on the causal hurdles that would be necessary for evolutionary processes to overcome.
Fleshing Out a Theory of Biological Design
Steve Laufmann and Michael Egnor explore these and other insights at the intersection of biology and engineering.
Minimal Complexity Problem in Prey Detection by the Sand Scorpion
The scorpion can detect tiny vibrations, of order 1 Angstrom (the size of a hydrogen atom) in amplitude, that emanate from its prey.
Irreducible Complexity in Ant Behavior Triggers a Recognition of Intelligent Design
Recent research draws an unapologetic parallel between human engineering and biological systems.