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Biomimicry News & Research
 | Rows of tiny raised blowfly corneas may be the key to easy manufacturing of biomimetic surfaces, surfaces that mimic the properties of biological tissues, according to a team of Penn State researchers. ...> Full Article |
 | A Virginia Tech engineer and Tufts biologists have shown that a caterpillar's gut slides forward in advance of the surrounding tissues -- "unlike any form of legged locomotion previously reported and represents a new feature in our emerging understanding of crawling. ...> Full Article |
 | Humans did not invent the wheel. Nature did. ...> Full Article |
 | Insects may have tiny brains the size of a pinhead, but the latest research from the University of Adelaide shows just how clever they really are. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists have discovered a way of mimicking the stunningly bright and beautiful colors found on the wings of tropical butterflies. The findings could have important applications in the security printing industry, helping to make bank notes and credit cards harder to forge. ...> Full Article |
 | Security organizations could be more effective if officials learn from occurrences in the environment, University of Arizona researchers suggest in the May 20 issue of the journal Nature. ...> Full Article |
 | To lower the fuel consumption of airplanes and ships, it is necessary to reduce their flow resistance, or drag. An innovative paint system makes this possible. This not only lowers costs, it also reduces CO2 emissions. ...> Full Article |
 | A group of Japanese researchers, who publish their findings today Thursday, May 20, in IOP Publishing's Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, have succeeded in building a fully functional replica model -- an ornithopter -- of a swallowtail butterfly, and they have filmed their model butterfly flying.
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 | The quest to derive energy from wind may soon be getting some help from Caltech fluid-dynamics expert John Dabiri -- and a school of fish. ...> Full Article |
Scientists from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and the University of Bayreuth have unraveled a decisive step in nature's way of producing spider silk; with industrial partners, they are working toward biomimetic production of synthetic fibers with comparable strength and elasticity. In Nature, they explain how spider silk proteins can be stored in high concentrations without clumping and then drawn at a moment's notice into fibers with five times the tensile strength of steel.
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 | Engineered artificial proteins that mimic the elastic properties of muscles in living organisms are the subject of an article in the May 6 issue of Nature. "Our goal is to use these biomaterials in tissue engineering as a type of scaffold for muscle regeneration," said co-author Dan Dudek, an assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics at Virginia Tech.
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 | The hairs on the surface of water ferns could allow ships to have a 10 per cent decrease in fuel consumption. The plant has the rare ability to put on a gauzy skirt of air under water. Researchers at the University of Bonn, Rostock and Karlsruhe now show in the journal Advanced Materials how the fern does this. Their results can possibly be used for the construction of new kinds of hulls with reduced friction. ...> Full Article |
 | A new study suggests that jewel scarab beetles find each other -- and hide from their enemies -- using the same technology that creates the 3-D effects for the blockbuster movie, "Avatar." ...> Full Article |
 | A cat can recognize a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists today presented a design strategy to produce the long-sought artificial leaf, which could harness Mother Nature's ability to produce energy from sunlight and water in the process called photosynthesis. The new recipe, based on the chemistry and biology of natural leaves, could lead to working prototypes of an artificial leaf that capture solar energy and use it efficiently to change water into hydrogen fuel, they stated. ...> Full Article |
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