#locomotion — Public Fediverse posts
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐭🧬 #Apollo #astronauts preferred skipping on the #Moon, a gait adults rarely use on #Earth.
Researchers found that #mice adopt the same skipping gait in simulated lunar #gravity, but lose it when their #proprioception cells are disabled. The gait may offer a useful speed stability trade off on uneven low gravity terrain.
👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/bungee-jumping-mice-may-reveal-why-astronauts-skip-moon
#locomotion #biomechanics #neuroscience #science #space #nasa #artemis #rodents
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"A spiking neural network model for proprioception of limb kinematics in insect locomotion", by van der Veen et al. 2025.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.27.615365v1.full