What new and exciting developments are happening/have recently happened in your field of science? It'd be nice to hear about the cutting edge, especially if you guys are involved in it.

Well, for years, we've only concentrated steady animal locomotion or acceleration, with little attention to anything else. Recently, work has begun to look at other important aspects, such as turning and braking. My current prof did the braking work (in fish), while the lab I desperately want to go to for PhD work did the turning work.

 

Mokele

I found some interesting resonant effects in certain subwavelength slit array structures. Unfortunatly due to the possible industrial uses of this I can't go into more detail

 

And in my new area of research well since 2000 hard disks are about 10 times bigger, and the first MRAM chip is avaliable for sale, but I can't claim to have done anything at all for them, but maybe in 2 years time I'll have something interesting to say...