Rowan Cheung on Instagram: "Researchers at Hokkaido University developed ultra-strong underwater adhesives by combining insights from nature with artificial intelligence. The team analyzed over 24,000 adhesive proteins from marine organisms like mussels and barnacles, identifying common molecular patterns that enable wet adhesion. They synthesized 180 hydrogels based on these patterns, then used machine learning to optimize the formulations. After three AI-guided rounds of predictions and testin

Atlantic Shark Institute on Instagram: "We are really excited to share a first for Rhode Island and a first for the ASI’s Baited Remote Underwater Video System (BRUVs) research. In the last week we got a video of this beautiful juvenile great white shark cruising past one of our BRUVs near Block Island! These small white sharks can be elusive and, with a very small population compared to many other shark species in the Northwest Atlantic, they aren’t easy to find or see in their natural environm

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