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• Water repellent properties, Biomimicry, Self Assembling Molecules, Network of micro- nanowires, excellent imagery in "Nanomaterials: Cu Water Strider

  
  Materials Science and Engineering Defined — Authority: 407
  Charles Mackintosh 1766-1843 finally thwarted by modern science and scientists whose work continues to stir our imagination. Water repellent properties , Biomimicry , Self assembling molecules , Network of micro- and nanowires-Link to Resources , excellent imagery , it’s all in this short news article ...
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• The Biomimicry Institute: Driving Education and Collaboration

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 638
  Founded three years ago, the Biomimicry Institute has developed a wide range of programs and activities to spread the word about biomimicry, advance research and education, and provide environments for collaboration.  
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• An Aerospace Approach to Wave Energy

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 122
  Scientific Computing, Advantage Business Media, November 2009The ocean is a potentially vast source of electric power, yet as engineers test new technologies for capturing it, the devices are plagued by battering storms, limited efficiency and the need to be tethered to the seafloor. Now, a team of aerospace engineers ...
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• Kangaroos May Inspire Anti-Cancer Skin Cream

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 680
  Photo: Public domain DNA Repair in a Pouch Getting some time in the sun is probably good for you since most of us are deficient in vitamin D , but it can also be dangerous because exposure to UV radiation can damage the DNA of your skin cells and cause cancer . This is a dilemma that most of us are faced with, ...
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• Schooling Fish Inspire Efficient Wind Farms

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 122
  JESSICA MARSHALL, Discovery.com News, November 30, 2009The patterns that schooling fish form to save energy while swimming have inspired a new wind farm design that researchers say will increase the amount of power produced per acre by at least tenfold.“For the fish, they are trying to minimize the energy that they ...
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• Self-Healing Paint Coming to Cell Phones

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 638
  Nissan has licensed its self-healing paint to a cell phone company that will use the coating on phones for the Japanese market. The paint reacts with the sun and heat to heal minor scratches in a week or less.  
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• RoboClam in mudflat biomimicry

  
  Eideard — Authority: 150
  RoboClam builds a better anchor - in the mud.
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• When are errors and mistakes good ? Cells defend themselves from viruses, bacteria with an army of protein errors

  
  Smart Economy — Authority: 127
  Our education system teaches us to avoid errors and mistakes, we are taught to aim to get the right answer…however in nature it’s not as clear cut as that...in some cases errors are helpfull.   A good rule of thumb in  science is "look under your nose."  and "challenge assumptions." The following story ...
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• Polaris, ARPA-E Pump Money Into Nocera’s Breakthrough in Biomimic Photosynthesis

  
  Green Options — Authority: 149
  Daniel Nocera’s Sun Catalytix was one of the 37 ARPA-E awardees last month with a $4.1 million vote of confidence from the Nobel prizewinner-driven Department of Energy. Now Polaris Venture Partners has just added $1 million to its earlier $2 million investment in the MIT spin-off to bring their total ...
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• Razor Clams are Inspiration for RoboClam, a Robotic Sand-Digging Anchor (Video)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 680
  Photo via MIT Biomimicry is again at the heart of new technology, this time for a solution to creating a better anchor. "The best anchoring technology out there is an order or magnitude worse than the clam - most are two or three orders worse," says Anette (Peko) Hosoi for MIT. She and graduate student Amos Winter ...
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• Qualcomms Upcoming e-Reader Will Mimic Butterfly Wings for Energy-Sipping Color Displays (Video)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 680
  Photo via Slashgear One of the primary aspects of e-Reader devices that are driving competition against one another is the display, with manufacturers looking at how energy efficient, how easy on the eyes, how readable in daylight, and how colorful they can make it. Qualcomm is now putting out an e-reader that uses ...
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• Mimicking Mother Nature

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 122
  WENDEE HOLTCAMP, National Wildlife, December/January 2010Frank Fish was browsing in a Boston sculpture shop a few years ago when he noticed a whale figurine. His first thought was, “This isn’t right. It’s got bumps on the leading edge of its flipper. It’s always a straight edge.”Fish, a West Chester ...
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• How Natural Systems Shape a New Business Model, by Gunter Pauli

  
  Melodies In Marketing — Authority: 110
  [Video Link for Email/Other Subscribers - 40min; start at 25th min] Founder and Director, Zero Emissions Research Institute , Gunter Pauli gives a great presentation on how nature can provide us the path to a world where green chemistry doesn’t just do no harm, but enables radical innovation opportunities; where ...
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• The Surprising Range of Robots

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 614
  I’ve been invited to join a panel on robotics at the upcoming Orycon Science Fiction Convention, so I decided to write about them here, too.  I also have a story coming out soon in Analog , called “The Robots’ Girl,” which started when I read an article complaining about robots being developed to help with ...
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• Nature Inspired, Award Winning ECO-Auger Flows Forth

  
  Mendo Coast Current — Authority: 122
  MendoCoastCurrent, November 16, 2009For centuries humanity has gazed at the sea, rivers and rambling brooks in awe of water currents and the energy potential they hold. With increasingly critical demand for safe renewable energy solutions, our ability to capture water power has been an abstruse, distant choice for ...
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• Link Metaklett-steel grips, Biomimicry and Shape Memory Alloy meanders

  
  Conversations-on-Innovations — Authority: 107
  Metaklett-steel grips, Biomimicry and Shape Memory Alloy meanders
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• Metaklett-steel grips, Biomimicry and Shape Memory Alloy meanders

  
  Materials Science and Engineering Defined — Authority: 407
  One rarely gets a chance, when talking of innovations in the very mature steel industry, to slip in such recent fields such as: A. Biomimicry, ‘Learning from Nature’, whereby scientific and engineering innovations are inspired by performances and functionalities observed in Nature, its models, systems, processes, ...
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• Green Wavelength unveils bumblebee inspired wind turbine

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 143
  Gizmag’s pages are filled with clever examples of biomimicry , and why not, evolution is after all the biggest, oldest and most successful design house we know of. Today’s lesson is being given by insects like bumblebees, hummingbirds, and dragonflies, whose efficient wing flapping capabilities are being ...
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• BIM – not your mother’s architecture.

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 135
  In celebration of ‘the Fifth of November’, aka ‘BIM Day’ I thought I’d post some ideas of what BIM (Building Information Modeling/Management) might look like in the future. This could be 20 years or 30 years, or never, but we should never stop thinking ‘what if’. In fact, recently I’ve been thinking ...
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• How Insects Do Graphic Design

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 680
  Yesterday the exhibition Bits n Pieces launched at Material Connexion in New York, a dialogue between the analog and the digital technologies within design in a post-digital era . What grabbed our attention in the busy space during the opening, were the insects doing graphic design! A sophisticated machine ...
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