Studying the filter-feeding mechanism of mobula rays, engineers developed a new design for industrial cross-flow water filters. Research shows the filter-feeders strike a natural balance between ...

Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny crustaceans and certain types of coral and krill, to various molluscs, barnacles, and even massive basking sharks and baleen whales. Now, ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va.-For years, when biologist Laurie Sanderson peered into the mouths of filter-feeding fish, what she saw was a puzzle. How did such fish, from the foot-long menhaden to the 42-foot ...

Although biopharmaceutical manufacturing covers an extensive range, it is essential that each iteration of a unit operation is in compliance with an unyielding set of operational parameters and ...

Engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled after the mobula ray’s plankton-filtering features. Pictured are pieces of the filter. Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny ...