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While an undergraduate at Princeton, John Dabiri spent a summer at the California Institute of Technology, filming jellyfish at a nearby aquarium and trying to write mathematical models to describe their movement. "Initially I hated the idea, because my opinion of biology was that it was all memorization and stamp-collecting,” Dabiri says. “But it became clear that the jellyfish had a lot to teach me.” 
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German researchers develop a paint that mimics the aerodynamics of shark scales.
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"Designed to mimic natural forms, the leaf-like solar panels and LEDs of ross lovegrove's sculpture provide sustainable street lighting for st. john's square in london."
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"For hundreds of years, scientists have been poaching design ideas from structures in nature. Now, biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley are working together to design a broad range of new products, such as life-saving milli-robots modeled on the way cockroaches run and adhesives based on the amazing design of a geckos foot. QUEST visits their labs to find out what's so special about these crawling and scaling animals."
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Penguins. Such graceful creatures.Mommy never told us why these birds don't fly, but here's proof that this won't be a concern for our little...
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The unusually shaped hairs on the leaves of this floating weed is the foundation for a high-tech waterproof material.
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"When last we heard from GE and its Morpho-butterfly inspired sensors, all the talk was about detecting chemicals. [...] In the latest issue of Nature Photonics, however, the company's researchers show that the wing-like structures are just as good at detecting heat as they are ricin attacks."
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A new kind of laser captures light just like some colorful bird feathers. The device mimics the nanoscale structure of colorful feathers to make high-intensity laser light with almost any color.
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"The gentle swaying of kelp forests belies the immense hydraulic pressures they've evolved to endure. The waves that crash over them transfer huge amounts of energy—an average of 36kW/m with three-foot swells. Now, a green energy firm (BioPower) is banking on this sway to run arrays of Megawatt generators of the coast of Victoria."
Photo details: The wake after the ferry to Fanø, Denmark. Malene Thyssen, 2004, Gnu Free Document License. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boelge_stor.jpg
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The concept of biomimicry is the architectural process whereby a building or structure takes its form from the imitation of organic systems and processes.
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"TED Talks Biologist Robert Full shares slo-mo video of some captivating critters. Take a closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle across mesh and the nanobristle-packed feet that let geckos to run straight up walls." (watch Video on TED.com).
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"Combining the secrets that enable water striders to walk on water and give wood its lightness and strength yielded an amazing material so buoyant that, in everyday terms, a boat made from 1 pound of it could carry about 1,000 pounds."
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"Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers came up with Cyclen - a small-molecule catalyst that mimics the behavior of natural enzymes which handle CO2."
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The connection between humpback whales and helicopters might not seem obvious. But a group of researchers in Germany are thinking way outside-the-box, applying nature’s design to helicopters to make them faster and more maneuverable.
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A movie inspired on numbers, geometry and nature, by Cristóbal Vila.
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"The concept of this design by Xiaofeng Mei and Xiaotian Gao is based on the deconstruction and restructuring of Bionics as well as the supernatural spirit of re-designing a church. The idea is based on two starting levels and extraction elements. One is the derivative and evolution of fish’s bone and texture. Specifically, from fish bones, fish gills, fish suko, and other various important parts, I can extract the geometric elements and then sort out the logic of formation of biological body, which would become the primitive of main structure and mode."
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It's no surprise that many bugs have excellent hearing thanks to finely honed antenna. Checking out the giant antenna on the tiny bug above, it seems no surprise that they can hear surprisingly well.
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The leaves of carnivorous plants could hold the key to repelling ice from pipes and keeping them cleared.
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"A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International Space Station."
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"Concentrated solar power plants could get an efficiency boost inspired by flowers, according to MIT researchers. Designing solar mirrors in a spiral pattern similar to sunflower heads could reduce the space required for CSP plants and increase the amount of sunlight the mirrors collect."
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"The current industry model is broken. Our economy is built on a ‘take make waste’ model that negatively impacts environmental and human systems and is not tenable in the long term. It is time to reinvent. We are gifted with an array of genius examples in nature – mechanism and ecosystems that have evolved over 3.8 billion years and provide a blueprint for products, processes, and system organization that can be truly effective toward a healthier, resilient future. We propose that companies mimic nature and reinvent themselves around the fundamental science of Biomimicry’s seven Life’s Principles. This is Management Innovation According to Nature’s Genius."
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Inspired by nature, a group of researchers from MIT developed a glass that is self-cleaning, virtually eliminates reflections, and resists fogging and glare...
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According to MIT Media Lab director, Joichi Ito, "One hundred years from now, the role of science and technology will be about becoming part of nature rather than trying to control it."...
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"For algae to power our cars and planes, production needs to be low carbon and cost effective, which means working with natural processes, not against them, say scientists."
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