The authors report that the ability to leap will make the bio-inspired microrobot more agile and better able to avoid obstacles it encounters on the water's surface.

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Professor Ian Bond, head of the aerospace engineering department at the UK's University of Bristol, said his team had been developing a "bio-inspired" vascular system, based on the veins in the human body.

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John Battle, a Catholic Labour politician, says his biggest act of religiously inspired defiance was not a bio-ethical issue but opposing the Iraq war in 2003.

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Sure enough, if the Rolling Stones front man approves your application for the villa, Stargroves (potential renters must submit a bio, and the rocker personally vets each one), the Japanese-inspired casa Jagger -- which includes a cook, housekeeper, and gardener -- is yours.

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