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Harvesting solar energy just got one step closer to rivaling the efficiency of nature. 
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A new series of projects will allow buildings and even its furniture to sense how they are being used and adapt to changes in the environment around them.
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How do giraffes to pump blood the entire distance of their bodies? Why don't they faint when they stand up?Check AskNature Nugget Ep. 5: Giraffe.
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Violin strings made of spider silk are stronger than conventional strings made from aluminum and nylon.
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A tiny “living,” swimming robot that could be used to detect diseases in the human body is being developed by U.K. and U.S. researchers.
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Drawing inspiration from schools of fish, termite mounds, and the photosynthesis of leaves, new technologies seek to produce cleaner, more efficient energy through biomimicry.
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"Using the desert snail as inspiration for their design, a team of students from the Art Institute of Isfahan in Iran, took the top prize of $5,000 in the third annual Biomimicry Student Design Challenge, organized by the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute."
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With the right combination of tail beats and water velocity, about 60 percent to 70 percent of the live fish followed behind the robot fish.
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Chinese researchers have turned to the light absorbing properties of butterfly wings to significantly increase the efficiency of solar hydrogen cells, using biomimetics to copy the nanostructure that allows for incredible light and heat absorption.
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"If biomimicry is the instance of technology emulating nature, then this must be something like the opposite: researchers at Kobe University have built a computer out of crabs."
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The thumbtack, or 'drawing pin' as it was first named by the British, was invented more than a century ago. It is so simply designed, it's hard to think of how it could be improved...
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