Nature's Fine Designs
December 03, 2009
December 03, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 3 -- Harvard University issued the following news release:
By Corydon Ireland
Starting with bacteria and blue-green algae, nature has been busy making things for at least 3.5 billion years. The success and longevity of its processes make biology worth studying as a source of robust designs for new materials, nanotechnologies, and even new approaches to architecture.
"We look at what nature does so nicely, and try to mimic i . . .
By Corydon Ireland
Starting with bacteria and blue-green algae, nature has been busy making things for at least 3.5 billion years. The success and longevity of its processes make biology worth studying as a source of robust designs for new materials, nanotechnologies, and even new approaches to architecture.
"We look at what nature does so nicely, and try to mimic i . . .