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All Articles Tagged As: beetles
 | Shreerang Chhatre is an engineer and aspiring entrepreneur at MIT who works on fog harvesting, the deployment of devices that, like the beetle, attract water droplets and corral the runoff. This way, poor villagers could collect clean water near their homes, instead of spending hours carrying water from distant wells or streams. ...> Full Article |
 | The research indicates that their natural bifocals work differently than the ones we get by prescription. ...> 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 |
 | Iridescent green beetles could provide blueprint for light-reflecting materials ...> Full Article |
 | An obscure species of beetle has shown how brilliant white paper could be produced in a completely new way. A team from Imerys Minerals Ltd. and the University of Exeter has taken inspiration from the shell of the Cyphochilus beetle to understand how to produce a new kind of white coating for paper. ...> Full Article |
 | From beetles to aircraft, nanoparticles aid microscope views ...> Full Article |
Propulsion technique harnesses natural pull of water's surface, similar to how beetle larvae move through water
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 | Researchers have been unable to build an ideal "photonic crystal" to manipulate visible light, impeding the dream of ultrafast optical computers. But now, University of Utah chemists have discovered that nature already has designed photonic crystals with the ideal, diamond-like structure: They are found in the shimmering, iridescent green scales of a beetle from Brazil. ...> Full Article |
 | The bombardier beetle is inspiring designers of engines, drug-delivery devices and fire extinguishers to improve spray technologies ...> Full Article |
 | An amazing insect, which sprays its predators with toxic steam, has inspired research into a new generation of technology at the University of Leeds. ...> Full Article |
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