What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glueted.com - Jonathan Wilker What if we could harness the sticking powers of sea creatures like mussels, oysters and barnacles, which refuse to budge even on wet, stormy …
Bioplastic crafted from chickpeabuildingcentre.co.uk Berlin-based designer Paula Nerlich has crafted a unique biomaterial from chickpeas. The material is derived from aquafaba — a viscous liquid …
'The impact is tremendous': readers on wildflower vergesThe Guardian - Guardian readers and Matthew HolmesCatastrophic news for insect life has inspired communities and councils around the UK to take action, generating splashes of summer colour which hope to have a lasting impact. After reporting a campaign
Algae This New Algae Farm Makes Growing Green Superfood at Home a Snapdwell - Duncan NielsenRhode Island School of Design graduate Hyunseok An puts algae on the menu with a home farming kit. Did you know algae is a superfood? It's a single-cell protein packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants—and
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo How one fern hoards toxic arsenic in its fronds and doesn’t diesciencenews.org - Carolyn Wilke To survive high levels of arsenic, a fern sequesters the heavy metal in its shoots with the help of three proteins.
Taking a leaf out of plants’ bookschemistryworld.com - Nina Notman We have created a global climate emergency and our reliance on fossil fuels is largely to blame. To save our planet, our global love affair with …
Could Trees Be the New Gravestones?The New York Times - By NELLIE BOWLESSANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Death comes for all of us, but Silicon Valley has, until recently, not come for death. Who can blame them for the hesitation? The death services industry is heavily regulated and with
Microbes from farms may protect children from asthma even in citiesnewscientist.com - By Chelsea Whyte Children who grow up on farms have a lower risk of developing asthma, and now it seems that may be due to microbes that can also be found in urban …
This Creature Eats Stone. Sand Comes Out the Other End.The New York Times - By VERONIQUE GREENWOODLithoredo abatanica is an organism with an unusual appetite: This creature eats stone. And when it excretes, what comes out is sand, the leftovers of a still-mysterious digestion process. The mollusk,
GIY Maker Spotlight: Natalia Pióreckagrow.bio Q: What first sparked your interest in the realm of mycology? A: I always had this interested in both the natural sciences and design. At the …
IKEA launches homeware made from rice straw to help reduce India's smog problemdezeen.com - Augusta Pownall
The world’s most beautiful headphones are here, and they’re made of fungusFast Company - Mark WilsonAnd other biomaterials such as bacteria and biosynthetic spider silk. The headphones are gorgeous. The headband glows in a Dieter Rams white. Chestnut-colored leather cups your ears. It’s hard to believe
Biological Species “In the city, we can see evolution happening on our streets, in real time”thedeveloper.live Isat down with Menno Schilthuizen, evolutionary biologist and author of When Darwin Comes to Town before his lecture for the UK Green Building Council …
The green technologies that could save the worldDAZED - DazedRenewable, eco-friendly tech isn’t the stuff of futurist sci-fi – it already exists, and it’s time to make the switch away from deadly fossil fuels Imagine a future where your daily commute is powered
Fungi The underground network of fungi and bacteria that connect and support trees ash been mapped for the first timinterestingengineering.com - Jessica Miley Underneath every group of trees and forest is a complex network of bacteria, fungi, and roots that the plants use to communicate and support each …
BBC Radio 4 - The Five Faces of Leonardo, Leonardo's Citybbc.co.ukMelissa Sterry, the design scientist behind the concept of Bionic City, visits Milan to discover the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci. For Melissa, the trip is as much about the legacy Leonardo has left to
studio Thomas Vailly - product designer based in Eindhovenvailly.com -- see PART II -- Focusing on the transformation of bio-matter, this project explores the potential of sunflower leftovers to create new applications …
Algae Algae tiles turn walls into living water filtration systemsFast Company - Katharine SchwabA team of designers and engineers from University College London are trying to bring bioremediation to wall tiles. Up to 80% of India’s surface water is polluted, according to a 2015 report. But while
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Princeton University Microsoft moves into biological computing with Station BFinancial Times - Clive CooksonMicrosoft will make a big move into biotechnology on Tuesday with the launch of a new research system that enables scientists to engineer living cells using machine learning and data analysis. The tech
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Lizards from suburban areas learn faster to stay safe | Biology Lettersroyalsocietypublishing.org - Batabyal Anuradhaand Thaker Maria Sih A. 2013Understanding variation in behavioural responses to human-induced rapid environmental change: a conceptual overview. Anim. Behav. 85, …
Centre Pompidou hosts Living Sculptures investigating Life in a Digital Agearchdaily.com - by Niall Patrick Walsh The renowned Centre Pompidou in Paris is to open its doors to two living sculptures, embodying the future forms of spatial intelligence. The …
Designers used bacteria to make these textilestreehugger.com - Kimberley Mok This experiment may kickstart a new age of microorganism technology. When people think of building materials, they usually imagine things like wood, …
Vem aí a era das cidades biônicasglobo.com - POR DEBORAH BERLINCK Se as ideias da designer Melissa Sterry se difundirem, prepare-se para ver projetos arquitetônicos mutantes e casas construídas com cogumelos A …
sabri ben achour develops magnetic clay to organically grow his ceramic workdesignboom.com - kat barandy I designboom new york city-based artist sabri ben-achour’s work is driven by the belief that humans inherently find beauty in the ‘orderly disorder’ of nature. …
