{"id":536384,"date":"2018-10-18T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5191eccb9a8f1b5045ddeb1146e3e920"},"modified":"2018-10-18T11:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T15:00:06","slug":"bioceramics-power-the-mantis-shrimps-famous-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=536384","title":{"rendered":"Bioceramics power the mantis shrimp&#8217;s famous punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Singapore can now explain what gives the mantis shrimp, a marine crustacean that hunts by battering its prey with its club-like appendages, the most powerful punch in the animal kingdom. In a paper publishing October 19 in the journal iScience, they show that a saddle-shaped structure in the mantis shrimp&#8217;s limbs, which acts like a spring to store and then release energy, is composed of two layers made of different materials. Measuring the composition and the micro-mechanical properties of the layers\u2014which are mostly bioceramic and mostly biopolymeric, respectively\u2014allowed the researchers to simulate how the saddle stores such large amounts of elastic energy without breaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Singapore can now explain what gives the mantis shrimp, a marine crustacean that hunts by battering its prey with its club-like appendages, the most powerful punch in the animal kingdom. In a paper publishing October 19 in the journal iScience, they show that a saddle-shaped structure in the mantis shrimp&#8217;s limbs, which acts like a spring to store and then release energy, is composed of two layers made of different materials. Measuring the composition and the micro-mechanical properties of the layers&mdash;which are mostly bioceramic and mostly biopolymeric, respectively&mdash;allowed the researchers to simulate how the saddle stores such large amounts of elastic energy without breaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536385,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536384\/revisions\/536385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}