Biomimicry and the Sea: 5 Incredible Innovations for World Oceans Day
This World Oceans Day, we are diving deeper into the myriad reasons why the preservation of our oceans and sea life is of paramount importance.
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Looking Within: Design Inspired by Teeth and Bones
It’s easy to focus on the salient features of any living being: the color of a bird’s plumage, an elephant’s immensity, the musculature of the human leg. However, when you look deeper, the incredible durability and structure of bones is an engineering marvel. It turns out bones and teeth are capable of inspiring innovation in a variety of fields, including aeronautics, architecture, and automotive engineering.
Benjamin Banneker: A Life Told in Cicada Years
The emergence of 17-year cicadas in the summer of 2021 revived interest in a paper Janet Barber co-authored about the role of Benjamin Banneker — a free African-American in 18th-century Maryland — as one of the first naturalists to record scientific information and observations of the insects.
A Cure for the Uncommon Cold
By Tom McKeag When Arthur DeVries arrived at McMurdo Station in 1961, he was fresh from Stanford University where he had signed up for a 13-month stint to study the respiratory metabolism of the endemic Notothenioid fishes found in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica....
The man-made world is horribly designed. But copying nature helps.
By Christophe Haubursin | Vox | 99% Invisible Japan’s Shinkansen don’t look like your typical train. They’re fast — so fast they coined the term “bullet train” — with long, pointed noses that let them reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. But these...The Fox’s Sixth Sense
If you are a fox, and it’s winter, most of your food is hiding somewhere under the snow. So how might you go about catching a meal? Foxes hunt mice, and in winter they can often be seen “mousing,” quietly stalking their prey in open snowfields....Share
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