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JUST THE BEGINNING. "Other ideas beyond that of the “space as time” also exist. we have suggested the construction of dynamic and/or expanding fisheye-based “bubbleverses” embedded in a background spacetime." https://lnkd.in/eGZbXRV View in LinkedIn

SKY TAXIS are about to become a reality. A footnote to earlier postings. https://lnkd.in/eMiJkCC View in LinkedIn

BUBBLEVERSE. "The implications of spacetime transformation devices: (1) their (usually) directional nature; (2) spacetime distortions (as opposed to cloaks); (3) how leaky cloaks manifest themselves; (4) spacetime modeling and causality editors; (5) a time-dependent ‘bubbleverse’." https://lnkd.in/ebGgmMe View in LinkedIn

MOSQUITO HEAT SENSING. "Host-seeking mosquitoes are maximally attracted to thermal stimuli approximating host body temperatures...We found that the cation channel TRPA1, in addition to playing a conserved role in thermoregulation and chemosensation, is required for this specialized host-selective thermotaxis in mosquitoes." https://lnkd.in/eTG-33z View in LinkedIn

CUT-OUT EVENTS. "Design and demonstration of temporal cloaks with and without the time gap (2013). The cloaks are constructed with two linear time-invariant filters with different transfer functions, which can create a temporal gap and then closed it orderly, making any events occurring during the gap not detectable outside. We further reveal that even a no-gap temporal cloak can also hide events." https://lnkd.in/ei8rq6w View in LinkedIn

VAMPIRE HOT SPOT DETECTION. "Vampire bats have unique feeding habits as they consume only blood, which implies the ability to efficiently find a hot spot (a superficial blood vessel) on the body of their endothermic prey. At the molecular level, evolutionary specialization involved the modification of the already existing heat sensor, TRPV1." https://lnkd.in/eFfEp_R View in LinkedIn

THREE SNAKE LINEAGES. "Despite the huge evolutionary distance – more than 30 million years – infrared-sensing snakes from the three different families co-opted the same molecular strategy to sense minute amounts of heat emanating from their prey: through functional tuning of TRPA1...snake TRPA1 has one of the lowest apparent thermal thresholds identified so far in vertebrates." https://lnkd.in/eFfEp_R View in LinkedIn

THERMOSENSITIVITY. "Thermsensitive transient receptor potential (thermoTRP) channels serve as thermal sensors in diverse animal species." Includes our protagonist, TRP1. https://lnkd.in/erbAj5A View in LinkedIn

"TRPA1 orthologues from pit-bearing snakes (vipers, pythons and boas) are the most heat-sensitive vertebrate ion channels thus far identified, consistent with their role as primary transducers of infrared stimuli. Thus, snakes detect infrared signals through a mechanism involving radiant heating of the pit organ, rather than photochemical transduction." https://lnkd.in/e9jVgFP View in LinkedIn

INFRARED DETECTION BY SNAKES. "Snakes possess a unique sensory system for detecting infrared radiation, enabling them to generate a ‘thermal image’ of predators or prey. Infrared signals are initially received by the pit organ, a highly specialized facial structure that is innervated by nerve fibres of the somatosensory system." https://lnkd.in/e9jVgFP View in LinkedIn