Sports Equipment

Woodpecker-inspired helmets, mantis-shrimp impact composites and flying-squirrel wingsuits — how sports gear borrows …

The flying squirrel glides up to 90 meters by extending a skin membrane (patagium) between — the biology behind membrane …

The mantis shrimp punches at 23 m/s and over 10,000 g, thousands of times, without cracking its club. Its helicoidal …

Woodpeckers strike 20 times a second at 1,200 g without brain damage. Four nested structures make it possible — and now …