Earwig Fan Designing (VIDEO)

University of Oxford

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A highly sophisticated folding mechanism employed by a group of insects for at least 280 million years is set to become available for a wide range of applications, thanks to a design method developed and tested through multidisciplinary research by engineers and palaeobiologists.

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Kazuya Saito

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