“The periodic region plays a crucial role in selectively filtering out high-frequency shear waves, which are particularly ...

Scientists have found that the mantis' punch limb, which is called the dactyl club, has a structure that enables it to absorb the shockwaves that are created when it punches and c ...

Known for their powerful punch, mantis shrimp can smash a shell with the force of a .22 caliber bullet. Yet, amazingly, these ...

Insights from probing the shock-absorbing layer within the crustacean’s club-like claw could inspire the design of tough new ...

A mantis shrimp's punch creates high-energy waves. Its exoskeleton is designed to absorb that energy, preventing cracking and tissue damage.

This energy release creates an impressive force thousands of times the shrimp’s bodyweight that combines with the initial strike to smash open the shell of a mantis shrimp’s prey, killing the ...

The molds and plate were removed after three hours of curing, and the team applied silicon adhesive to bond the rigid ...

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that Professor Kyu-Jin Cho's research team from the Department of ...

Mantis shrimp are truly spectacular predators of the ... their prey on spear like structures and the ‘smashers’ which smash their prey with powerful blows. To capture prey so effectively ...