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Green Infrastructure for Managing Stormwater
It’s time to play Follow the Water. Take advantage of the next time a heavy rainstorm occurs on your schoolyard. Put on your rubber boots, go outside, and pay attention to what happens to the water as it lands on asphalt and cement. Follow it as it moves...Miracles of Nature and Biomimicry
In an awe-inspiring and engaging new BBC series called Miracles of Nature, Top Gear’s Richard Hammond reveals animal abilities with beautiful footage and discussions with scientists. He then shows how those same animals have inspired a series of unlikely human...The Latest on Spider Silk Research
The Guardian recently published an interview with Oxford professor and spider researcher, Fritz Vollrath. At the beginning of the interview, there’s a quote that reveals a lot about the man and the spiders he studies. When asked how he first got interested in...Slime Mold Feats
DNews (Discovery News) has an informative and thought-provoking video about slime molds. The narrator, Anthony Carboni, points out that the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, is a single-celled organism with no nervous system, yet appears to do...Biomimicry Student Design Challenge Finalists
We are excited to announce that we have selected the 10 finalists for the Biomimicry Student Design Challenge. This university-level challenge used water as its theme and 68 teams from around the world submitted their designs for judging. While it was tough, we were...Support nature-inspired problem-solvers
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