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This YouTuber Bought An Exoskeleton To Wield A Buster Sword Like Cloud Strife Exoskeleton

This YouTuber Bought An Exoskeleton To Wield A Buster Sword Like Cloud Strife

Allen Pan, who runs the Sufficiently Advanced YouTube channel, has published a new video showcasing how anyone can wield a giant anime sword with a little help from an exoskeleton. In an approximately 13-minute video, Pan discusses how he achieved the ultimate goal: swinging a generic replica of Cloud Strife's…
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March 12, 2021
Five-eyed fossil ‘shrimp’ found in China could be evolutionary ‘missing link’ Exoskeleton

Five-eyed fossil ‘shrimp’ found in China could be evolutionary ‘missing link’

A fossil specimen of Kylinxia zhangi found in China’s Yunnan province. Photo: Huang and Zeng / Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology / AFP The fossil has three smaller eyes in a row on its head, with two larger eyes directly behind The creature, that lived about 520 million years…
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November 4, 2020
This Beetle’s Stab-Proof Exoskeleton Makes It Almost Indestructible Exoskeleton

This Beetle’s Stab-Proof Exoskeleton Makes It Almost Indestructible

They don’t call it the diabolical ironclad beetle for nothing: Phloeodes diabolicus, a rugged insect native to western North America, has an almost supernatural ability to resist compression and blunt hits. Now, 3D scans have revealed that layered structures in its interlocking wing cases make the beetle twice as hardy as…
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October 23, 2020
You can’t squish this ‘iron’ beetle. Now, scientists know why. Exoskeleton

You can’t squish this ‘iron’ beetle. Now, scientists know why.

Home News Crush-resistant elytra — hardened exoskeletal forewings — protect the diabolical ironclad beetle against piercing and crushing predatory strikes. (Image: © David Kisalius) Diabolical ironclad beetles are almost unbreakable — you can smack them, stomp on them or run them over with a car, and they'll scamper away uncrushed.Now,…
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October 21, 2020
How to count insects from space Exoskeleton

How to count insects from space

It’s dark. Vegetal decay hangs thick in the air, trapped beneath the rotting innards of a felled beech tree. You wedge the hard shell of your exoskeleton through softening pulp, legs clicking in rhythm with each other. Chemosensors on your antennae and mouthparts ping with a steady stream of information,…
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October 21, 2020