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Beetleuse
FromWe Have Concerns
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Mar 22, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Researchers have created remote-controlled crawling insects before, forcing a bug’s legs to move by electrically stimulating its muscles. But now, for the first time, the muscles that control flight in beetles have been identified, allowing the same technology to create remote-controlled flying bugs. Jeff and Anthony wonder how this breakthrough will be used, and long it will take to assemble the vast cyborg beetle army that will destroy us all.
Released:
Mar 22, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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