Melissa SterryScience Bacteria-Filled Bricks Build Themselves scientificamerican.com - Sophie Bushwick Infusing building materials with living microorganisms has already lent inanimate objects new powers. Self-healing concrete, for example, uses …
Melissa Sterry Nir Meiri turns cabbage leaves into paper-like lampshades dezeen.com - Jennifer Hahn London-based studio Nir Meiri has teamed up with Indian designer Vaidehi Thakkar to create a series of lamps with shades made from red cabbage leaves. …
Melissa Sterry The Organic Internet of a Mycelium Network: Suzanne Simard, Paul Stamets, and Terence Mackenna www.youtube.com
Melissa Sterry This Pulsating Slime Mold Comes in Peace (ft. It's Okay to Be Smart) | Deep Look www.youtube.com
Melissa Sterry Mould Time-lapse - The Great British Year: Episode 4 Preview - BBC One www.youtube.com
Melissa Sterry Bats in attics might be necessary for conservation phys.org - Ecological Society of America For the little brown bat—a small mouse-eared bat with glossy brown fur—a warm, dry place to roost is essential to the species' survival. Reproductive …
Melissa Sterry A natural biomolecule has been measured acting like a quantum wave for the first time MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv Physicists have watched a chain of 15 amino acids interfere with itself, in an experiment that paves the way for a new era of quantum biology. One of …
Melissa Sterry Listening to Nature: The Emerging Field of Bioacoustics yale.edu Researchers are increasingly placing microphones in forests and other ecosystems to monitor birds, insects, frogs, and other animals. As the …
Melissa SterryScience The Mycelium Revolution Is upon Us scientificamerican.com - Eben Bayer Humans have been harnessing the power of yeast for thousands of years. These fungi allow fermentation, the molecular process whereby living cells …
Melissa SterrySan Francisco Bay Area Lens of Time: Building a Butterfly Wing — @bioGraphic biographic.com Spine Films is a San Francisco Bay Area production company specializing in international science, nature, environment, and arts media. They search …
Melissa Sterry UK government moves to end "vague and misleading" bioplastic terminology dezeen.com - Marcus Fairs The UK government has called for experts to help it develop standards for bioplastics and biodegradable plastics, amid rising concern over …
Melissa SterryScience 'Industrial melanism' linked to same gene in three moth species phys.org - University of Liverpool The rise of dark forms of many species of moth in heavily polluted areas of 19th and 20th century Britain, known as industrial melanism, was a highly …
Melissa SterryMussels What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue ted.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 …
Melissa Sterry Taking a leaf out of plants’ books chemistryworld.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 …
Melissa SterryMangroves Biomimicry of Mangroves Teaches How to Improve Coastal Barriers ansys.com - Keith Van de Riet Along tropical coastlines, red mangrove trees are hard at work. They accumulate fortifying layers of mud and decaying plant matter, effectively …
Melissa Sterry Nea Studio creates lamps from dried seaweed dezeen.com - Kristine Klein Curling edges detail these hanging lamps that New York designer Nina Edwards Anker has created from dried sheets of algae. Edwards Anker, who runs …
Melissa Sterry Bio-ID Lab designs DIY algae-infused tiles that can extract toxic dyes from water dezeen.com - Jennifer Hahn The Bio-Integrated Design Lab at the Bartlett School of Architecture has created a modular system of tiles inlaid with algae that can filter toxic …
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Melissa Sterry 'The impact is tremendous': readers on wildflower verges The Guardian - Guardian readers and Matthew HolmesReaders share how wildflowers are bringing colour and life to previously sterile green spaces Catastrophic news for insect life has inspired communities and councils around the UK to take action, generating
Melissa Sterry This New Algae Farm Makes Growing Green Superfood at Home a Snap dwell - 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
Melissa Sterry Junya Ishigami unveils rocky Serpentine Pavilion made out of slate dezeen.com - Amy Frearson Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has completed this year's Serpentine Pavilion, a craggy structure he describes as a "hill made out of rocks". The …
Melissa SterryIcon version of the Flipboard logo How one fern hoards toxic arsenic in its fronds and doesn’t die sciencenews.org - Carolyn Wilke To survive high levels of arsenic, a fern sequesters the heavy metal in its shoots with the help of three proteins.
Melissa Sterry From 3D Printing And Wound Healing To Bioplastic And Faux-Cotton, Seaweed Just Keeps On Giving Forbes - Natalie ParlettaThroughout history, cultures around the globe have enjoyed the nutritional and medical merits of seaweed. In more modern times, these macroalgal plants’ diverse ecological properties have captured scientists’
Melissa Sterry 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
Melissa Sterry Microbes from farms may protect children from asthma even in cities | New Scientist newscientist.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 …
Melissa Sterry 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,
Melissa Sterry GIY Maker Spotlight: Natalia Piórecka grow.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 …
