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 ...

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 ...

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 ...