Engineers have turned one of nature’s most reviled body parts into a precision tool, using the hollow feeding tubes of dead ...

The key to solving future food supply problems might be 3D Printing! A team of researchers at the Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD) aims to provide a solution to address food supply ...

(Nanowerk News) A new type of insect-repellent delivery device has been developed by scientists from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). With the help of a 3D printer, the active ...

Researchers examine how 3D printing could be harnessed to make alternative protein sources, such as insects, more palatable and accessible. The growing and ageing population is expected to drive ...

The future is here and it’s full of supply chain issues and the devastating environmental impacts of farming. If we’re going to get to that utopian Star Trek-like future instead, we’ll need food ...

It was a good week for the biological sciences as an international team of researchers found that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein activates human endogenous retroviruses in blood cells, possibly ...

Biomimicry and 3D printing have come together in new swarming ant and butterfly robots that act very much like their insect counterparts, the inventions of German robotics firm Festo. The company ...

(A) Wearable device for the antennae: (i) A 3D model of the cockroach’s head was used as a reference to design the wearable device for the antennae. (ii) Two hooking mechanisms were incorporated to ...

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A research team from McGill University and Drexel University has transformed female mosquito feeding tubes into ...