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UrduInspired by squid skin, researchers in ACS Nano report a soft film that can regulate its transparency across a large range of wavelengths—visible, infrared and microwave—simultaneously. They demonstrated the material in smart windows and in health monitoring and temperature management applications.
Tag: cephalopods
Human cells help researchers understand squid camouflage
Squids and octopuses are masters of camouflage. And now, researchers have replicated the tunable transparency of squid skin in mammalian cells. The work could shed light on basic squid biology and lead to better ways to image cells. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2023.
Changes in cholesterol production lead to tragic octopus death spiral
Cholesterol metabolism is responsible for an unusual “death spiral” that some octopus mothers undergo after laying their eggs. The research, published May 12 in Current Biology, reveals that steroid hormones play critical roles in metabolism, behavior, life history and health across the animal kingdom.
Squid and octopus genome studies reveal how cephalopods’ unique traits evolved
Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish – even to scientists who study them – are wonderfully weird creatures.
Fossils may hold clues to climate change, says BGSU paleobiologist
Evolution and extinction of an ancient mollusk, informs the research of Dr. Peg Yacobucci
Squid Jet Propulsion Can Enhance Design of Underwater Robots, Vehicles
Squids use a form of jet propulsion that is not well understood, especially when it comes to their hydrodynamics under turbulent flow conditions. Discovering their secrets can help create new designs for bioinspired underwater robots, so researchers are exploring the fundamental mechanism. They describe their numerical study in Physics of Fluids; among their discoveries, they found that thrust production and efficiency are underestimated within laminar, or nonturbulent, flows.