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Trilobite Tuesday #38: Inspired by prehistoric creatures, researchers make record-setting lenses
Phys.org has a story about technology derived from fossils. Some researchers at NIST have took inspiration in the eyes of the trilobite Dalmanitina socialis to make special bifocal lenses for a miniature camera. Their work can be found in a recent paper published in the journal Nature Communications. Five hundred million years ago, the oceans…