The motivations for using biology as inspiration to engineering vary based on the project, but for Ling Li, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, the combination ...

Humans have drawn technological inspiration from fish scales going back to ancient times: Romans, Egyptians, and other civilizations would dress their warriors in scale armor, providing both ...

A closeup of the armor scales. © Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology Researchers from the Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Relics and ...

Interior point methods have revolutionised the field of optimisation over the past few decades, offering robust and efficient alternatives to traditional simplex and iterative algorithms. These ...