Shrimps inspire next-gen GPS

4/5/2018

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Cosmos (April 6) -- An international team of researchers, including scientists from the U. of I., have taken a lesson from the polarized vision of shrimp and have developed a radical new type of underwater geolocalization system. The system uses polarization – the bending, refracting and scattering of light as it passes through water – to calculate the position of objects. Also: TechNews (April 5), ZME Science (April 5), Millenium Post (April 5), CNET (April 5), IFL Science (April 5), FoxNews (April 5)


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This story was published April 5, 2018.