Exoskeleton

© Brett Boardman Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), Architectus, and Dexus Property Group have celebrated the completion and opening of 100 Mount Street, a 39-story mixed-use tower in North Sydneys Central Business District. Inspired by the citys rich…

Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa. Since the cuticle of these animals typically forms a largely inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed. The remnants of the old,…

ITHACA, N.Y. - Researchers at Cornell University have created a system of circulating liquid -- "robot blood" -- within robotic structures, to store energy and power robotic applications for sophisticated, long-duration tasks. The researchers have created a …

S&P 500 Index Readjustment I paraphrased this information from Barron's, and inserted my own take as well.... On June 24, S&P Dow Jones Indices will readjust the representation of the 500 companies that constitute the market benchmark, a quarterly p…

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french interior designer and visual artist alice pegna says shes attracted to surprising and unexpected materials. her work, guided by experimentation, takes inspiration from nature and its intricate structures. for ex nihilo, an ongoing project by pegna, the…

Capitalizing on emerging technology is crucial for successful companies if they want to avoid losing the consumer and market share. But there also is a fine line between tech hype and reality many of the buzziest ideas end up as busts and far fewer become maj…

Marvel fans across the globe have always dreamed of being the genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist known as Iron Man. Well, former Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage has built his own functional, flying Iron Man suit on his new eight-part series called S…

The plump rusty patched bumblebee, Bombus affinis, once buzzed all across the eastern United States, the upper Midwest and parts of Canada. But today, the chunky critter is endangered, its population reduced by nearly 90 percent. In Minnesota, where the rusty…

A 20-centimetre tarantula capable of killing a bird has been filmed at its most vulnerable state shedding its armour-like exoskelton at a Victoria-area tropical jungle insectarium. Justin Dunning, living collections manager at Victoria Butterfly Gardens in B…