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Elizabeth Wolkovich researches the impact of climate change on vineyards. Full story.
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How the Egg Got Its Shape
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An international team of scientists led by L. Mahadevan and Mary Caswell Stoddard (former postdoc in Edwards Lab) have answered the question of why there is great diversity in egg shape and sizes. And, the answer may help explain how birds evolved. The...
L. Mahadevan Develops A Simple Device That Mimics Complex Birdsongs
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L. Mahadevan used air blown through a stretched rubber tube to recreate complex birdsongs. The study published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, found the complexity of birdsongs may be due to a simple controllable instability in the structure of...
How Honey Bees Keep the Hive Cool on Hot Days
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Postdoc, Jacob Peters (PhD '18) and Prof. L. Mahadevan have developed a framework that explains how bees use environmental signals to collectively cluster and continuously ventilate the hive. The study published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface...
A Look At Flowers Millions of Years Ago
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News from the Friedman Lab! Flowering plants, which arose approximately 140 million years ago, are the most diverse group of plants on Earth. The evolution of these plants and why so diverse is a biology mystery. OEB Ph.D. student, Kristel Schoonderwoerd...
How Clumps of Honeybees Survive Wind
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L. Mahadevan and PhD students, Jacob Peters ('18) and Mary Salcedo (Mahadevan Lab) teamed with Prof. Orit Peleg, Colorado University-Boulder, to research the collective mechanical adaptation in honeybee swarms. The study, published in Nature Physics...
How Termite Mounds Get Their Shape
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How the centimeter-sized termite is able to build meter-sized structures all over the world has long puzzled scientists. In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Prof. Mahadevan and PhD student, Alexander Heyde...
Shape-shifting Structures Take The Form of A face, Antenna
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Prof. L Mahadevan and researchers with the Harvard Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering have created the most complex shape-shifting structures to date -- lattices composed of multiple materials that grow or shrink in response to changes in...
Robin Hopkins Receives NSF CAREER Award
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Congratulations to Robin Hopkins, recipient of the NSF CAREER Award!
L. Mahadevan Discovers How to Control Drying-Induced Deposition
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L. Mahadevan's latest study discovers how to control drying-induced deposition. Full story.
L. Mahadevan Discovers How Termite Mounds Ventilate
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L. Mahadevan's newest study reveals termites' massive mounds ventilate like lungs. Full story.
Cavitation or Deformation?
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The Holbrook lab's latest study, led by Postdoctoral Fellow, Yong-Jiang Zhang, in Plant Physiology reports on reversible leaf xylem collapse.