As Charles Darwin showed nearly 150 years ago, bird beaks are exquisitely adapted to the birds' feeding strategy. A team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has now explained exactly how some shorebirds use their long, thin beaks to defy gravity and transport food into their mouths.
Read »MIT solves gravity-defying bird beak mystery
http://web.mit.edu –
3 years 37 weeks ago – Made popular 3 years 37 weeks ago
Category: Mathematics Tags:
Category: Mathematics Tags:
Navigation
User login
Visit the BiotechMashup Blog
Best upcoming scoops - Mathematics
- Sensing technology: Motherboard monitoring inspired by the immune system
- In Silico Insights into the Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Sinorhizobium meliloti via Metabolic Reconstruction
- Polyglutamine Repeats Are Associated to Specific Sequence Biases That Are Conserved among Eukaryotes
- Eradication of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma after Adenovirus-Encoded TNF-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand (TRAIL)/CpG Immuno
- Trans-Synaptic Spread of Tau Pathology In Vivo