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Engineered robot interacts with live fish
via kurzweilai:
A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots — a step toward using autonomous robots in an open environment to protect endangered animals and control pest species. […]
[read more @kurzweilai & @iop] [paper] [image credit: G Polverino et al./Bioinspiration & Biomimetics]
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Ruup Students of Estonian Academy of Arts
“Gigantic wooden megaphones” for the forest inhabit a clearing in Estonia's Pähni Nature Centre. They are part of an acoustic installation meant to amplify the sounds of the landscape, serve as outdoor classrooms or just provide shelter to a weary hiker.
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From Winners of the 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest, one of 20 photos. Meandering Canyon. People’s Choice, Aerial. Green vegetation blooms at the river’s edge, or riparian, zone of a meandering canyon in Utah. (© David Swindler / 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Japanese archery, Kyudo 弓道