published March 6, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: The National Guard In a letter to the journal Science (subscription only, or see the letter republished with permission at WSUnews ), associations representing over 40,000 scientists have proposed a resourceful solution to the less-big-government versus protection-of-the-people problem: they have volunteered their vast experti... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published February 28, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo by waferboard via Flickr Creative Commons It's no surprise that many bugs have excellent hearing thanks to finely honed antenna. In fact, some insect antennae are so powerful, it seems engineers haven't yet been able to come close to mimicking nature, especially when it comes to small, directional antennae. But a tiny bug is about to change that, ...
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published February 20, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Hydrogen spectrum, cosmiccandace Last time we checked in on Thomas Mallouk's work applying biomimicry to generate hydrogen , he was reporting about 0.3 percent efficiency. According to his projections, the proof-of-concept device for producing hydrogen using the same trick applied in plants for photosynthesis could eventually reach efficiencies of 10-15%, beating nature's average of 1 to 3 percent. ...
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published January 11, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo Credit: William Sacco, Yale University Cockroaches are amazing. No matter how disgusting you might think they are, they should be considered one of the 7 wonders of the living world, if there were such a thing. They've been an inspiration in many ways to scientists working in the field of biomimicry, and the latest example of that inspiration ...
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published December 22, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: "Are Oral Contraceptives a Significant Contributor to the Estrogenicity of Drinking Water?" by Amber Wise, et. al. at ACS Publications You may have heard the rumor, or even bought into the popular belief, that taking birth control pills is causing high levels of female hormones in the environment, leading to the feminization of frogs, fish, and other aquatic ...
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published July 30, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via Dezeen The mantra of offshore wind turbine design seems to be "Bigger! Bigger!" in order to get more power out of single turbines. But going hand in hand with making turbines bigger is that they become heavier. British engineers are hoping that a new design that mimics the way sycamore seeds spin through the air will help ...
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published July 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo by Anne Toal You're likely familiar with the way a caterpillar works its way up a stem or across a leaf -- that move-the-front-then-move-the-back process is one of their charms. But what you might not know is that a caterpillar actually moves its internal organs forward before moving its legs. A team of researchers at Massachusetts' Tufts University ...
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published June 3, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo by author: Janine Benyus + InterfaceFLOR CEO Lindsey Parnell at Saf London Yesterday in a sunny corner of London, a select group of UK journalists, myself included, were treated to an enrapturing few hours in the company of biomimicry guru Janine Benyus . The group was brought together by sustainable business pioneers InterfaceFLOR , whose long standing... Read ...
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published June 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via University of Exeter The iridescence of butterfly wings have been the source of inspiration for more energy efficient yet vivid displays , but their shine is proving useful for brightening up not just our gadgets, but the money we buy them with as well. Researchers are looking in to how biomimicry can foil the efforts of would-be ...
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published May 24, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo by gleewaytee Biomimicry is a relatively new discipline in science and technology in which researchers look at the systems and organisms in the natural world to come up with solutions for problems. We've seen some
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Top 5 Areas Where Nature-Inspired Innovation Works
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