HONEYBEES AS BIOINDICATORS OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS IN THE SOUTH OF ITALY




A Cyborg Insect Reveals a Function of a Muscle in Free Flight

While engineers put lots of effort, resources, and time in building insect scale micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) that fly like insects, insects themselves are the real masters of flight.What if we would use living insect as platform for MAV instead? Here, we reported a flight control via electrical stimulation of a flight muscle of an insect-computer

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Reviving indigenous technology for promoting the concept of failsafe design in building climate-resilient weirs for irrigation

The existence of indigenous technologies and knowledge bases that could be invaluable to responding to climate change is widely appreciated.This article focuses on one such indigenous technology of a bounder and brushwood diversion weir designed to divert water from the source river to its off-taking canal for irrigation.Of its several functions, t

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