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51. Snout detects pressure: star-nosed mole
"Talpids also possess an Eimer's gland, a mechanosensory organ present on the rhinarium. This organ is highly sensitive and responds to the onset and offset of pressure, to sustained depression of the epidermis, and to changes in the angle of the...
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The Phillips Head Protection System (PHPS) enhances traditional helmet design by adding a specially designed lubricated high-tech polymer membrane over the outside of the helmet. The membrane is designed to slip in a controlled manner over the inn...
53. Bill used as heat exchanger for thermoregulation: toco toucan
"The toco toucan (Ramphastos toco), the largest member of the toucan family, possesses the largest beak relative to body size of all birds. This exaggerated feature has received various interpretations, from serving as a sexual ornament to bein...
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56. Xylem conduits transport water: plants
"The transport system that drives sap ascent from soil to leaves is extraordinary and controversial. More than a century ago, H. H. Dixon (1896) proposed that a pulling force was generated at the evaporative surface of leaves and that this force w...
57. Elastic blood vessels accommodate pumping: mammals
"In a typical mammal body, the cylindrical arteries and veins which carry the blood have walls, containing the elastic fibre elastin, which expand to accommodate the spurts of blood pumped by the heart and then shrink again, pushing the blood onwa...
58. Mechanism to seal joint prevents depressurization: spiders
"One particular hydraulic device is worth a little more attention here, partly because its existence comes as yet another surprise and partly because it achieves antagonism for contractile muscle in an unusual way. The eight legs of a spider diffe...
59. The lining of blood vessels allow blood cells to move with little resistance.
"[C]ore proteins in the [endothelial surface matrix layer of proteoglycans and glycoproteins that coats the inner lining of our blood vessels] are sufficiently stiff to serve as an exquisitely designed transducer of fluid shear stress to the corti...
60. Smart Bandage
Researchers at the University of Bath are developing a new type of bandage that could selectively kill harmful bacteria in wounds, while allowing helpful bacteria to continue flourishing and assisting in the healing and disinfecting of the damaged...
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