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- Artist's inspiration: How robot soccer led to a mathematician's mirror that reflects your true face
- Probing the mystery of the venus fly trap's botanical bite
- What's behind the success of the soccer 'knuckleball'
| Artist's inspiration: How robot soccer led to a mathematician's mirror that reflects your true face Posted: 16 Nov 2012 09:43 AM PST When you look in a mirror, you see an image of yourself in reverse. But one odd mirror invented by a mathematics professor shows your true face without reversing its image. |
| Probing the mystery of the venus fly trap's botanical bite Posted: 16 Nov 2012 05:52 AM PST Plants lack muscles, yet in only a tenth of a second, the meat-eating Venus fly trap hydrodynamically snaps its leaves shut to trap an insect meal. This astonishingly rapid display of botanical movement has long fascinated biologists. Commercially, understanding the mechanism of the Venus fly trap's leaf snapping may one day help improve products such as release-on-command coatings and adhesives, electronic circuits, optical lenses, and drug delivery. |
| What's behind the success of the soccer 'knuckleball' Posted: 16 Nov 2012 05:52 AM PST What makes soccer star Christiano Ronaldo's "knuckleball" shot so unpredictable and difficult to stop? |
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