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Scotsman, United Kingdom - 9 hours ago
By John von Radowitz UNUSUAL properties in a squid's beak prevent the kind of self-injury caused by a knife with no handle, a study has found. ...
Squid Beak Is Both Hard And Soft, A Material That Engineers Want ... (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-1&fd=R&url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080327172330.htm&cid=1146367577&ei=18DsR9CTNoquygTI6Y3UBA&usg=AFrqEzdtlUhf891fI9ILRvqRGWDa458V0Q) Science Daily (press release)
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The Transition from Stiff to Compliant Materials in Squid Beaks (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/6-0&fd=R&url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5871/1816&cid=1146389531&ei=18DsR9CTNoquygTI6Y3UBA&usg=AFrqEzdk33sgwuIa-rzTen_bNRmvauSJCw)
Science Magazine (subscription) - 12 hours ago
The beak of the Humboldt squid Dosidicus gigas represents one of the hardest and stiffest wholly organic materials known. As it is deeply embedded within ...
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Squid Beaks Make Awesome Prosthetic Limbs (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=R&url=http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/squid-beaks-prosthetic-limb/977&cid=0&ei=BBLuR7KZPJDcywSgzZTgBA&usg=AFrqEzcWbpBLHannbUcUtqFn6fLe-dhe0A)
Environmental Graffiti, UK - 16 hours ago
It’s possible this is the freakiest medical breakthrough I’ve ever seen; scientists are trying to figure out how to make prosthetic limbs out of squid beaks ...


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The Squid's Beak May Revolutionize Engineering (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl%3Fsid%3D08/03/29/237206&cid=0&ei=eWPvR9XMG5WoygSF1aTWBA&usg=AFrqEzc9Jt0oOyk5zjQqPcFSm13BLdragA)
Slashdot - 9 hours ago
Ace905 writes "For years the razor-sharp beak that squid use to eat their prey have posed a puzzle to scientists. Squid are soft and fragile, ...


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Squid Beak Is Both Hard And Soft, A Material That Engineers Want ... (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/5-0&fd=R&url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080327172330.htm&cid=0&ei=3LXwR4prkrjKBOyonNUE&usg=AFrqEzdh-ecEVPLOshOinuL9bxkYNuet9A)
Science Daily (press release) - Mar 27, 2008
The sharp beak of the Humboldt squid is one of the hardest and stiffest organic materials known. Engineers, biologists, and marine scientists at the ...


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Squid's soft tissue provides secret of deadly beak's cutting-edge ... (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/6-0&fd=R&url=http://news.scotsman.com/scitech/Squid39s-soft-tissue-provides-secret.3923785.jp&cid=0&ei=3LXwR4prkrjKBOyonNUE&usg=AFrqEzfAbQqt5A3mMTAa_QPVq7y1qUWAkA)
Scotsman, United Kingdom - Mar 27, 2008
By John von Radowitz UNUSUAL properties in a squid's beak prevent the kind of self-injury caused by a knife with no handle, a study has found. ...


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Squid Beaks May Have Medical Application (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/7-0&fd=R&url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hrTNv8bKM9fLAaNHmMix92kKlSRgD8VLUI VO0&cid=0&ei=3LXwR4prkrjKBOyonNUE&usg=AFrqEzfz7zVQrb5bBSYEDFqOAPcLeEwELA)
The Associated Press - Mar 27, 2008
That means the tough beak can chomp away at fish for dinner, but the hard material doesn't press or rub directly against the squid's softer tissues. ...


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Nature.com (subscription) (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2i-0&fd=R&url=http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/03/a_peak_at_a_squidgy_beak.html&cid=0&ei=8AbyR9qqMoq-ywTK3Z2iCg&usg=AFrqEzcf8SWonGa_1IpGeUNmOOVTcIFd9A)
A peak at a squid-gy beak (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=R&url=http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/03/a_peak_at_a_squidgy_beak.html&cid=0&ei=8AbyR9qqMoq-ywTK3Z2iCg&usg=AFrqEzeKsW6W5bNOkmVtHMNqvJ4Mo126gw)
Nature.com (subscription), UK - 17 hours ago
Researchers in the US have finally worked out how the aggressive and slightly-scary Humbolt squid avoids turning itself into calamari when eating. ...


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Technology the Squid’s Way (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/9-0&fd=R&url=http://scienceline.org/2008/03/31/technology-the-squid%25E2%2580%2599s-way/&cid=0&ei=8AbyR9qqMoq-ywTK3Z2iCg&usg=AFrqEzfhq5Mg2eVBt32gVNFgm5wV9EKimA)
Scienceline, NY - 19 hours ago
Case in point, the Humboldt squid, which manage to use a hard, razor sharp beak to kill and rip up prey with no damage to their own squishy, ...


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Scientific American - Mar 31, 2008
The Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) can sever the spinal nerve of a hapless fish with a single chomp of its beak—the better for grazing on later—but the ...


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