Abstract. Neurodiversity has received considerable attention recently from the general population and academic researchers, coinciding with an increase in

This article is based on an interview with Andrew K. Schulz, an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow and postdoctoral researcher in the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute...

A grassroots network created by and for neurodivergent scientists in academia.

Warum Elefantentasthaare im Tierreich einzigartig sind – und was die Robotik davon lernen kann.

Keratin composites enable animals to hike with hooves, fly with feathers, and sense with skin. Mammalian whiskers are elongated keratin rods attached to tactile skin structures that extend the animal’...

Keratin composites enable animals to hike with hooves, fly with feathers, and sense with skin. Mammalian whiskers are elongated keratin rods attached to tactile skin structures that extend the animal’...

Researchers have studied rat and mouse whiskers, but these key organs for elephants have been largely overlooked.

The material properties change gradually from base to tip for better navigation, more precise manipulation.

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Pachyderm whiskers are more flexible at the tip than the base, allowing elephants to complete delicate tasks with their incredibly strong trunks

My birthday is on November 19 and since I was a child I remember it being a strange time. Before college I don’t think I felt like I had a…

Experiencing a day at work with and without masking as an autistic academic has made me realize how much energy it takes to keep that…

This week, I read several articles highlighting the press conference of the HHS secretary declaring that autism is a growing “epidemic.”

In the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment, diploid yeast evolve to be tetraploid under selection for larger multicellular size, revealing how whole-genome duplication can arise due to its...

What’s that on your tail? @sidneyleedham @LivEvoBiomech, and @james_charles90 review this exciting preprint which explores how the development of a scaly-organ at the base of the tail of flying squirr...

Advanced microscopy shows that the skin along the elephant’s trunk is anisotropic; elephant skin has an armor thicker than an Armadillo shell, with entangled protein fibers that provide additional sti...

Humboldt University of Berlin research also shows Asian elephants have more wrinkles than African cousins

Origin of the famed creases reveals how the trunk became the “most unbelievable grasping organ on the planet”