There are many things to learn in the wonderfulness of nature. Shark's skin has antibacterial effect. Lotus leaves have self-cleaning effect ..... The peacock feather has a structural color that ...

What do a cat’s prickly tongue, a pine cone and fungus all have in common? On the surface, not much. But dig deeper, and each is inspiring a facet of the beauty industry. That’s because cosmetics- and ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed ...

AFTER taking his dog for a walk one day in the early 1940s, George de Mestral, a Swiss inventor, became curious about the seeds of the burdock plant that had attached themselves to his clothes and to ...

This century, in order to deal with growing environmental crises, significant technology breakthroughs must be found. While we are currently mostly focusing on existing ideas and improving ...

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Biomimetics is the application of ideas from nature in engineering. At first sight, it seems a promising approach: evolution by natural selection is extremely effective, and designers can surely learn ...