In order to 3D-print really intricate items, you need a really fine print nozzle. Scientists have discovered that instead of ...

Engineers have turned one of nature’s most reviled body parts into a precision tool, using the hollow feeding tubes of dead ...

A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Researchers at McGill University recently figured that the same biological ...

Under a microscope, the mosquito’s proboscis looks like a tiny, precision tool. Thin, flexible, and sharp, it slips through skin almost unnoticed to draw blood. To most people, it’s a nuisance. To ...

A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Researchers at McGill University recently figured that the same biological ...

A Canadian research team has developed a technology that uses mosquito mouthparts to create ultra-fine nozzles for 3D printers. https://www.newscientist.com/article ...

The Kansai researches sought to mimic the proboscis' serration by fabricating a needle that copies the mosquito's mobile mouth parts. The needle is etched from silicon and has three parts that are ...

1. There are mosquito species that don't feed on humans. 2. Only the female mosquitos drink blood. The males drink nectar. I wonder if cloning just males would be economically feasible. Click to ...

Calling the red welt a mosquito leaves behind on your arm a “bite” is really a misnomer. A more realistic term might be “injection”: the structure the insect uses to puncture our skin bears an uncanny ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, 29 JANUARY 2024, 21:00 CET (20:00 LONDON TIME, 15:00 U.S. EASTERN TIME) Have you ever seen a hummingbird hawk moth? When people encounter this moth for the first time, they are ...