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Toward a safer national chemicals policy

November 18, 2015

ByTom McKeag
Biotechnology helps us understand the need for a national chemicals policy.
cleaning product chemicals and sustainability

Cleaning up cleaners with bio-surfactants

September 24, 2015

ByTom McKeag
Could animal fats and other natural ingredients help detox cleaning substances?
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Bio-inspired robots: A force for good or evil?

August 4, 2015

ByTom McKeag
From gripping an object on an assembly line to navigation modeled off of animals' built-in sonar, nature offers an array of enviable features for robotics researchers.
biodiversity and commercialism

Why we need an ‘Interdependence’ Day

July 14, 2015

ByTom McKeag
教皇的Encyclical to an array of alarming reports, evidence that we need to rethink our relationship with biodiversity is all around us.
Nepal Earthquake biomimicry resilience

Resilience: Nature’s lessons for surviving its worst moods

June 2, 2015

ByTom McKeag
Shocks to the built environment, like the recent earthquakes in Nepal, drive home the opportunity to borrow from ecosystems.
self-healing roadways sustainable material

Highway, heal thyself

May 5, 2015

ByTom McKeag
As the world's most common building material, concrete is cheap to produce but comes with high environmental costs — pushing researchers to experiment with more sustainable self-healing road materials.
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Can nature unlock the potential of additive manufacturing?

March 30, 2015

ByTom McKeag
Recent developments in chemistry may have taken us closer to the Holy Grail of finding a universal kit of parts with which to "print" our world.
The phragmatopoma californica worm inspired creation of a surgical glue

The glue inspired by a worm could save your life someday

March 3, 2015

ByTom McKeag
Biomimicry in the making of a surgical glue: scientists seek the sticky, wet, and adhesive properties of worm secretions in creating a medical glue for surgery.
Red plastic pipes

On the trail to safer plastics

February 2, 2015

ByTom McKeag
Plastic is everywhere — and its environmental footprint is getting larger. But bioplastics could hold the key to a cleaner future.
cuttle fish

Tommies 2014: the best of bio-inspired designs

January 6, 2015

ByTom McKeag
It’s time for the sixth annual Tommies, a salute to the best of bio-inspired designs of the year just passed.