Word: mahadevan
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...When the water moves, it changes the curvature in the leaf in one direction that causes it to flip like a tennis ball or a contact lens,” said Mahadevan, whose first Venus flytrap came in 2002 as a gift from Dumais, who was then a post-doctoral student in Mahadevan?...
...been thinking about [the flytrap’s movement] on and off. Then we had it in front of us,” Mahadevan remembers...
...Mahadevan has a way of looking at the world that is just really unique. He’s written a beautiful story about a fascinating event of a plant,” said Howard A. Stone, Joseph professor of engineering and applied mathematics...
...study the flytrap’s movement, Mahadevan used a high speed ultraviolet video, and then developed a mathematical model to describe the movements. Instead of insects, he used a glass rod to stimulate the flytrap’s leaves...
...Mahadevan had to stimulate the same hair twice within a 10-15 second time frame in order to get the plant to shut...