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2019
January
Neat News 2019-17 (added 2019-01-17)
Feathers as the new velcro
Public Domain by Adolphe Millot
| Researchers have looked at the mechanism how the barbes of a feather interconnect. With all variation between different feathers from different species of birds the mechanism seems to be universal and may show a way how to produce new materials that interconnect better than velcro. |