Thursday, 2 August 2007

Biomimetics: Borrowing from nature's best ideas

A burgeoning scientific field known as biomimetics copies good designs from nature - the light capturing properties of a fly's eye, or the structure of a beetle's shell. Increasingly scientists and engineers are realizing that nature, with the benefit of millions of years of evolution, holds the key to some of the very best ideas.

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