Sea Sponge Hydrodynamics
The Venus’s flower basket is a sea sponge that lives at depths of 100-1000 meters. Its intricate latticework skeleton has long fascinated engineers for its structural mechanics, but a new study shows that the sponge’s shape benefits it hydrodynamically as well. (Image and research credit: G. Falcucci et al.; via Nature; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh)
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