Monday, February 11, 2019

THE CUTTING EDGE - Nature's Innovations

"How cutting-edge engineering borrows nature’s innovations" PBS NewsHour 2/6/2019

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  In the never-ending hunt for new designs that jump, pump, or run faster and better, scientists are finding inspiration in nature.  The field of biomimicry blurs boundaries between living things -- like the butterfly’s proboscis or the flea's powerful legs -- and the inanimate to spur new problem-solving technologies.  Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports.

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