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Could animal fats and other natural ingredients help detox cleaning substances?
by Tom McKeag
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From gripping an object on an assembly line to navigation modeled off of animals' built-in sonar, nature offers an array of enviable features for robotics researchers.
by Tom McKeag
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From the Pope’s Encyclical to an array of alarming reports, evidence that we need to rethink our relationship with biodiversity is all around us.
by Tom McKeag
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Shocks to the built environment, like the recent earthquakes in Nepal, drive home the opportunity to borrow from ecosystems.
by Tom McKeag
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As the world's most common building material, concrete is cheap to produce but comes with high environmental costs — pushing researchers to experiment with more sustainable self-healing road materials.
by Tom McKeag
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Recent developments in chemistry may have taken us closer to the Holy Grail of finding a universal kit of parts with which to 'print' our world.
by Tom McKeag
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Biomimicry in the making of a surgical glue: scientists seek the sticky, wet, and adhesive properties of worm secretions in creating a medical glue for surgery.
by Tom McKeag
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Plastic is everywhere — and its environmental footprint is getting larger. But bioplastics could hold the key to a cleaner future.
by Tom McKeag
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It’s time for the sixth annual Tommies, a salute to the best of bio-inspired designs of the year just passed.
by Tom McKeag
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Made In Space worked with the agency to show what additive manufacturing can do among the stars and on the blue planet.
by Tom McKeag
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Whether you call them water bears, moss piglets or tardigrades, these crawly critters are masters of survival…and Biomatrica seeks their secrets.
by Tom McKeag
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Researchers are looking to nature to develop non-toxic glues that work better than synthetic materials. See what the lowly mussel taught a team at MIT.
by Tom McKeag
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From versatile fish to salt-sequestering plants, the natural world abounds with ways to turn sea water into freshwater.
by Tom McKeag
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Vehicle makers cut costs — and the fuel needed to move a plane or car's mass — with software that uses biomimicry principles.
by Tom McKeag
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Recent milestones bring the much anticipated application of a universal dry and tunable adhesive closer to our everyday use.
by Tom McKeag
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Issus coleoptratus is an unlikely hero, but one whose jumping prowess could revolutionize ballistics and spring-loaded machines.
by Tom McKeag
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Population explosion amid ambition and poverty threatens ecosystems and their untapped potential. How can we protect natural capital and human life?
by Tom McKeag
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This month: "Glacial pace" loses its meaning, consumers find new resources and architects learn from masters of biomimicry.
by Tom McKeag
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Structures common in hair and bones have important implications for the future of biomedical devices, building design and beyond.
by Tom McKeag
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Companies including Google and Amazon are eyeing robots of the future inspired by dogs, bees, ants and more.
by Tom McKeag
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From an arthropod to a virus, here are 10 of the most impressive bioinspired developments from the past year.
by Tom McKeag
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Inspiration struck when carmakers aimed to create sustainable vehicles based on nature.
by Tom McKeag
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Lobster-eye telescopes and 3D-printed stem cells. Where is bio-inspired design popping up next?
by Tom McKeag
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Here's how two U.S. firms pursued the holy grail of bioinspired design: artificial photosynthesis.
by Tom McKeag