Study reveals the physics behind nature’s pointed tips
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You might think that a bee’s stinger, a rose’s thorn or a razor-like animal tooth has a sharp pointed tip, rather like “cone-shaped” needles used for injections. Yet a closer look finds otherwise, and these objects are usually rounded at the tip, curving gently like a parabola.
Why this is the case is a mystery and it was thought that it was the result of convergent evolution, in other words different species independently arriving at similar solutions.
This is partly because a rounded curve pe
Why this is the case is a mystery and it was thought that it was the result of convergent evolution, in other words different species independently arriving at similar solutions.
This is partly because a rounded curve pe
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