Tag: heat
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This vine-like robot moves towards heat
Robots are increasingly drawing from a menagerie of animal inspirations, but one of the newer designs takes its novel inspiration from vegetation. As spotted on ... Read More
Biology, Science
Summer heat waves and low oxygen prove deadly for bay scallops as a New York fishery collapses
The heartbeat response of bay scallops to fluctuations in the bay’s water temperature and dissolved oxygen were measured using optical infrared sensors, or "scallop Fitbits." ... Read More
Technology
How heat pumps work and save energy
This article was originally featured in Knowable. It was an engineering problem that had bugged Zhibin Yu for years — but now he had the ... Read More