Light vibrations change direction when passing through a cuttlefish's arm

2026/05/01 by Jarren Kay · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Action (physics) #Cephalopods and Marine Biology #Marine animal studies overview #Noise (video) #Vibration #Work (physics) #Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications

paper · doi:10.1242/jeb.252786

published in Journal of Experimental Biology 229(9) (The Company of Biologists)

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• Cuttlefish use polarised light to make their arms appear banded, but if their arms get too large the bands start to disappear. Recently Nakayama &co showed that the animal's arms stop growing at the i [bsky, 13 points, 1 comments]