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MIRAGE. "Just when you thought invisibility cloaks couldn’t get any weirder, researchers come up with this: a way to make one object look like any other. Now Che Chan and pals from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology say that metamaterials could be used for an even more exotic effect: for cloaks that create the illusion that a different object is present." https://lnkd.in/exKwCuQ View in LinkedIn

UNUSUAL MOLECULE. "As a temperature sensor, TRPA1 is intriguing, because while this ancient polymodal ion channel is found throughout vertebrates and invertebrates, it has acquired divergent functions over the course of evolution, such as temperature or chemical sensitivity, depending on the group of species under consideration." https://lnkd.in/e-WBvC9 View in LinkedIn

ILLUSION CLOAKS. "They’ve even designed illusion cloaks that can make one object look like another." https://lnkd.in/eVgKzAT View in LinkedIn

TRPA1 data summary from UniProt database. It tells the story of diverse functions, activators and outcomes. https://lnkd.in/ez7x4Q2 View in LinkedIn

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