ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026
The geometry of Nature's stingers is universal due to stochastic mechanical wear.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- The geometry of Nature's stingers is universal due to stochastic mechanical wear.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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Abstract
Despite their ubiquity in Nature, spikes or stingers rarely exhibit sharp tips. Instead, a closer inspection of their roughly conical tips reveals a striking similarity in their profiles: They adhere to a power-law, [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text]. This conformity persists across diverse spatial scales and materials. The mechanistic basis for this universality was recently attributed to evolutionary selection for ease of piercing [H. Quan
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