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Chameleons, salamanders and many toads use stored elastic energy to launch their sticky tongues at unsuspecting insects located up to one-and-a-half body lengths away, catching them within a tenth of a second. Professor Ramses Martinez and other Purdue researchers at the FlexiLab have developed a new class of entirely soft robots and actuators capable of re-creating bioinspired high-powered and high-speed motions using stored elastic energy.
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Gina Kolata, author of “Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918,” discussed how researching the 1918 influenza outbreak could give insight on the next potential pandemic during a Sept. 23 Ideas Festival talk at Purdue.
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Our physical and mental state influences our eating habits. But scientists are still trying to understand how one biological process affects how we eat. Warning: Learning more could kill your appetite.
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Here is a sampling of recent news reports about Purdue from media across the nation and the world. | |
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