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and deposit it on the seafloor to restart nature's eons-long process of creating fossil fuels.

Nature provides a rich portfolio of sometimes unlikely living technologies that may shape our near-future lifestyles in new ways.

The practice of biomimicry already taps into nature's ingenuity oe for example, the famous hexagonal skin of Norman Foster's Gherkin was inspired by the Venus Flower Basket sponge,

But we have reached a point at the start of the 21st Century where we do not have to copy nature

-which enables us to grow organisms that do not exist in nature by manipulating their DNA oe to create trees that produce a natural light-producing protein usually found in jellyfish.

though, might lie in nature's version of Ryder's Frozen Zoo. Flash-frozen remains of wooly mammoths have been found preserved under the Siberian permafrost,

and medicine for Nature Newsif you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on Future,

and rocklike material being grown in nature. Similar to growing coral in the oceans or crystals in a laboratory

These systems will need to be global in nature, and over time, a few will emerge to challenge the power of nations.

and more pervasive, the nature of our work begins to change as well. The first wave of baby boomers has turned now 65.

and climatology to one where the true power-brokers will wield the forces of nature. 47.

#The boom in apps comes as economists are debating the changing nature of work, which technology is reshaping at an accelerating speed.

We ve got to package in the same way nature does, #says a Harvard bioengineer named David Edwards

By advancing civilization we change the nature of the problems we re dealing with, and that is exactly what the Eight Grand Challenges have been designed to do.

and more pervasive, the nature of our work begins to change as well. The first wave of baby boomers has turned now 65.

or too expensive to grow in nature or to make with petrochemicals. The rush to biological means of production promises to revolutionize the chemical industry

organisms that do not exist in nature. Ten years ago, when Newman was a postdoctoral student at the University of California at Berkeley,

Dropnet Fog Collector http://www. greenmuze. com/nature/water/2358-fog-harvesting-dropnet. -html Imke Hoehler, an inductrial design student at Germany s Muthesius Academy of Fine arts has turned a lot of heads with her thesis project, the Dropnet fog collector.

as reported in the journal Nature. Such amazing technology will have to wait to come to marketplace

whether to let nature take its course or have us intervene. In 2012 the U s. Forest Service,

So, the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has joined forces with America s beer brewers to change how farmer irrigate their crops.

and are a prime example of scientists meddling in nature, heedless of the dangers. But that could soon change,

but nature isn t perfect, either.##So we will only be creating close proximities to existing species, effectively new forms of life.

#oehumans made a huge hole in nature, and we have a moral obligation to repair the damage.#

and walking trails behind one of our library branches#so we have partnered with the local Audubon Society and another nature group, Jackson Bottom Wetlands,

for the first time ever, begin to control nature s greatest forces. Details here. 16. Global System Architect 17.

or too expensive to grow in nature or to make with petrochemicals. The rush to develop bio-factories as a means for production

and climatology to one where the true power-brokers will wield the forces of nature. Final Thoughts In much the same way that the 1985 Apple Laserwriter gave birth to desktop publishing,

#Engineers Follow Mother Nature's Lead on Keeping Clean This Behind the Scenes article was provided to Livescience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

With 3. 5 billion years of research and development under her belt Mother Nature could be considered the world's most experienced biological engineer.

It's therefore not surprising that today's engineers are looking to nature for inspiration

Living nature is full of engineering marvels from the micro to the macro scale that have inspired mankind for centuries says Bharat Bhushan senior author of the study and director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio-and Nanotechnology and Biomimetics

and butterfly wings combine the low drag of shark skin with the superhydrophobicity of the lotus leaf putting these surfaces at the top of the list of nature-made self-cleaners.

and butterfly wings combine antifouling properties of some of nature's best self-cleaners Bhushan and Bixler have identified new surfaces that can be used as engineering inspiration for a wide range of industries plagued by biofouling.

The Wilkie's most recent Op-Ed was Conservation Is About Caring for Nature and People.

#Simply Copying Nature is No Way to Succeed at Inventing Just Ask Leonardo Da vinci (Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation.

One method is to look at nature. Some call this activity bionics others call it biomimetics.

The first step is to imitate nature and the second step is to abandon nature s ways.

At some point you have to give up the love affair dump nature and move on. The problem is that simply copying nature doesn t work.

Here is an example from my field structural materials. Bones are an excellent material providing support and strength.

Currently we can t make materials that reproduce a bone s internal structure. But even if we could we wouldn t be able to use it in engineering structures for many reasons.

First nature can live with failure but we can t . When we design a component for a car

But nature is happy to work with much higher failure rates: the chance of breaking a bone

The reason for this difference is that for nature the failure of an individual is of no consequence.

So nature is wasteful of individual lives in a way which we risk-averse humans can t tolerate.

His book Design in Nature: Learning from Trees is a classic on biomimetics. Mattheck s lifelong love affair with trees has led to many important innovations in engineering design.

if you remember that nature was only the starting point not the objective of the exercise.

#Nature can be a wonderful muse an excellent starting point in the development of a new engineering device

or material but don t make the mistake of thinking that nature has solved already your problems for you.

Nature Newsozone experts are exploring ways to curb powerful greenhouse gases of their own making under the Montreal Protocol,

which is 11,700 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas (M. Wara Nature 445,595-596;

Nature Newsafter decades of searching, plant biologists have found a way to selectively snip out one gene

In 1997, a Nature paper reporting targeted gene disruption in Arabidopsis raised the hopes of many plant researchers3.

Nature Newspolicy Events Funding Research Business The week ahead Number crunch News maker Policy Spaceflight review:

-I rocket in favour of commercial space flights, had already been aired in public meetings (see Nature 460,791;

came in response to a damning review of the ERC published in July (see Nature 460,557;

See go. nature. com/Eh8n43 for more. Nuclear vision: Germany's new coalition government will extend the lifespan of the nation's nuclear power plants which last year produced around 23%of the country's electricity needs beyond 2022.

See go. nature. com/APMPTB for more. GM protests: Environmental groups are protesting after the Mexican government's 15 october approval of the first permits to plant experimental genetically modified (GM) maize (corn.

But researchers say that past landrace contaminations from illegal GM maize planting (see Nature 456,149;

The week ahead 29 october â oe1 November Philadelphia hosts the 47th Annual Meeting of the Infectious diseases Society of America. go. nature. com/ykfvnw 29 â oe30 October

A European council summit meeting in Brussels may firm up European promises to finance climate-change action in developing countries. go. nature. com/1kwxls 2 november The European space agency is scheduled to launch its Soil Moisture

and Ocean Salinity satellite. go. nature. com/shq161 2 â oe6 November Nairobi, Kenya, hosts the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria's fifth Pan-African Malaria Conference. www. mimalaria. org/pamc 2 â oe6 November The United nations Framework

Spain. go. nature. com/Qss4jx Number crunch 57%of Americans think there is solid evidence the Earth is warming,

Nature Newsbe very careful. The warning, from Robert Socolow, a climate researcher at Princeton university in New jersey, came at the end of a meeting last week that aimed to thrash out guidelines for the nascent field of geoengineering.

and decades to sort out any number of smaller impacts (see Nature 463, 426-427; 2010).

Nature Newsbuffeted by the economic crisis and a drop in the oil price, US producers of corn ethanol are encountering increasing scepticism from the legislators on Capitol hill even as producers of the'greener'cellulose-derived ethanol struggle to move beyond basic research and development.

Nature Newsresearch Policy Events People Business Trend watch Research Crop catalogue A global search to gather the wild relatives of essential food crops such as wheat,

See go. nature. com/l8mgn2 for more. Higgs hunt extended A 15-month shutdown to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider is set to be delayed by a year to the end of 2012.

See go. nature. com/py46rh for more. Venus probe flop In a bitter disappointment for Japan's space agency,

500 patient studies are in progress at any given time (see Nature 466,172; 2010). ) The same board voted to establish a translational-medicine centre at the NIH (see page 877 for more.

See go. nature. com/mbhs6a for more. TB diagnosis The World health organization (WHO) said on 8 december that a test that can rapidly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) was a'major milestone'for disease control.

Nature Newspolicy Business People Research Trend watch Coming up Policy German GM CROPS The highest court in Germany has upheld a law that makes planters of genetically modified (GM CROPS liable

Patient protection US President Barack Obama has asked his bioethics commission to review the recent discovery that US government-funded scientists intentionally infected subjects with syphilis in a study in Guatemala in the 1940s (see Nature 467,645;

See go. nature. com/j3ixm6 for more. Bisphenol A ban The European commission has agreed to ban the common chemical bisphenol A from baby bottles across the European union by mid-2011.

See go. nature. com/iy9xbq for more. Research Temperature hike The figure of 0. 05 0. 13 °C for the world's warming during the past decade has been underestimated by around 0. 03 °C,

and food security in response to climate change in the region. go. nature. com/b4gqxb 2 december Commercial spaceflight company Spacex, of Hawthorne, California,

Nature Newswhen the US Department of agriculture (USDA) announced this month that it did not have the authority to oversee a new variety of genetically modified (GM) Kentucky bluegrass,

These are based not on a plant's GM nature but on the techniques used for its genetic modification.

Nature 459,437-441; 2009). ) Bayer is interested in harnessing other enzymes called'meganucleases'to do the same type of targeted engineering,

has backed the use of a mixture of conventional and renewable energy sources to meet demand (see Nature 494,409-410;

See go. nature. com/xgnin4 for more. Rocket launch The Antares rocket built by Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Virginia,

See go. nature. com/b6oeoz for more. Lawsuit settlement Cancer researcher Philippe Bois has settled a lawsuit against the US Department of health and human services (DHHS) over scientific misconduct, according to an announcement on 18 Â April.

See go. nature. com/yxeciw for more. Natasha Gilbertafrican agriculture African farmers must use sustainable and environmentally friendly technologies to reverse rising hunger levels across the continent,

See go. nature. com/czdx9k for more. US$674 billion The amount spent last year finding

Maryland. go. nature. com/wfnyw227-30 april Flu pandemics, the resurgence of measles and antimicrobial resistance are discussed all at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology

and Infectious diseases meeting in Berlin. go. nature. com/jyfhwf

US regulation misses some GM cropsit took scientists 85 years to breed a commercial apple that could fend off apple scab,

This pool trapped water being also in the depths of the moon is fluid in nature

Nature is self-balancing. When the Earth is no longer capable of supporting us our population will decline.

and Liberty Link corn. www2. ca. uky. edu/entomology/entfacts/ef130. aspsincerely-Joe www. joesid. comunfortunately nature is winning.

If asked they will say that they did not have the kind of understanding of the nature of the cell that would indicate that radiation could harm them.

ÃÚ à The glyphosate-resistance of GMO corn has encouraged such an over-abundance of glyphosate-based herbicides to be dumped into the environment worldwide that nature has started to respond in kind with the evolution of âÂ#Âoesuperweeds.

As nature starts to catch up to our laboratory antics the agricultural and economic advantages of GMO corn are starting to become obsolete

and are forcing farmers to dump even more varieties of toxic chemical herbicides and pesticides on our foods in order to stay ahead of nature s race.

Back at Organovo inside an otherwise unremarkable neon-lit clean room Dallas arranges human cells into intricate patterns that mirror those of nature.

nature does everything in Curves.@@industrial. skyoh god lol. Old tech will always be far superior.

Heidiit would probably take a return to nature. A society that lived in the 17 or 1800's or earlier.

It is nice to believe that we can just let nature take care of us if only we could denounce our evil ways.

because I love nature but our future is in the hands of technology if we are to continue to grow

While nature wont survive-humans will at least a portion of us. We are evolved enough to survive in freezing climate.

One commenter Lifestream said âÂ#Âoewhile nature wonã¢Â#Â#t survive-humans will at least a portion of us.

First</b>humans are part of nature not separate from it so if nature wonã¢Â#Â#t survive neither of course will we.

We are part of the food chain not separate from it. The top of the food chain is actually the most vulnerable

These type of jobs are technical in nature and pay better thereby giving more people a higher level of money and yes medical benefits.

It is the greatest assault ever made upon nature; but the white man brushing aside all obstacles

It was bad enough in the wilds of nature but worse in the habitation of man.

since nature made them poured out their accumulated filth to the sea; those that could not be drained were oiled;

nature. Now as we gaze at the heap of shredder residue he says Most people would look at this pile

The idea of borrowing designs from nature is far from new particularly when it comes to flight.

As technology has advanced scientists have decoded many of nature s secrets. And engineers have developed the first flying insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:

Nature has a several-hundred-million-year lead time on us when it comes to great design says Peter Singer a fellow at the Washington D c. ased Brookings Institution.

Learning how nature creates superior sensors could lead to lighter smarter drones. And as that happens their range of applications will grow.

Tour's breakthrough unzipping technique for turning multiwalled carbon nanotubes into GNRS first revealed in Nature in 2009 has been licensed for industrial production.

#Grains fumigated ecologicallya substance present in nature turned out to be just as effective as other chemical compounds to eradicate harmful organisms in stored grains without negative effects.

The work appears online this week in Nature Materials. The Rice labs of lead investigator Jun Lou Pulickel Ajayan and Boris Yakobson all professors in the university's Mechanical engineering and Materials Science Department collaborated with Wigner Fellow Wu

Co-authors of the Nature Materials paper are Rice research associate Xiaolong Zou graduate students Gang Shi and Sidong Lei and Wu Zhou at Oak ridge National Laboratory.

#Songbirds may give insight to nature vs. nurtureon June 3rd Jove will publish a research technique that allows neural imaging of auditory stimuli in songbirds via MRI.

Results of these trials will allow researchers to gain insight into genetic and social components of behavior bringing insight to the Nature vs.

A team of U s. and Australian researchers reports in the journal Nature May 22 that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate

The study is published in the May 5 2013 issue of Nature Materials. Our research is the first to systematically examine what kinds of defects result from these large growths

either crystalline or amorphous but these categories were probably more reflec tive of the limitations of imaging methods than the underlying structural organization of the cellulose says Jerome Fox lead author of the Nature Chemical Biology paper

To liberate the hydrogen Virginia Tech scientists separated a number of enzymes from their native microorganisms to create a customized enzyme cocktail that does not occur in nature.

The technology is published in the journal Scientific Reports the latest open-access journal from the Nature Publishing Group.

and other plants to absorb atmospheric CO2 for photosynthesis. In nature the CO2 is released eventually back into the atmosphere as the plant decays.

Our new fiber is based on a structure we found in nature and through clever engineering we've taken its capabilities a step further says lead author Mathias Kolle a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS).

and the climate shows that without new climate policies expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term according to a study appearing today in Nature.

Hence one of the challenges in this field is the ability to create microdevices out of the Mos2 film comprising components with different thickness or chemical nature.

This technique allows us to go beyond its seasonal nature and preserve all the properties of the product so we can consume the fruit alone

While living in a space habitat is basically residing in a mechanized environment Hava says humans by their makeup still need to be around nature.

In a paper published in this weekâ##s early online edition of Nature they report the discovery of a new genetic pathway in plants made up of four genes from three different gene families that control the density

Results from the research appear today in the journal Nature Communications. Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel.

Cellulose is found everywhere in nature in rich quantities for example in the stems of the corn plant.

The researchers reported their work yesterday in Nature Nanotechnology. Water evaporation is the largest power source in nature Sahin said.

Sunlight hits the ocean heats it up and energy has to leave the ocean through evaporation he explained.

In social studies, students can recreate replica scale models of the Pyramids of Giza as they conduct research about the mathematics and historical nature of these ancient wonders.

a last-ditch measure for saving traces of nature before it is gone. But if they aren't enough,

Mother Nature has five types of sugars--we can use two types, six-carbon and five-carbon sugars found in nature.

Smartplanet: Cobalt has seen investment from Vantagepoint, Pinnacle, LSP and Harris & Harris, among others. How did you convince them that biofuels could be done?

Nature Conservancy share watershed lessons Alliance to share water risk data; the value of wastewater Greenpeace challenges apparel industry to come clean Pushing for more disclosure Smarter home irrigation technologies Smart grid gains ground with water managers 3 water

Picarro sensors can read'nature's bar code'You may have read about Picarro, which makes sensors for detecting

It's nature's bar code, he said. So, for example, it would be possible to distinguish corn-fed cattle from Vermont from their cousins from Texas or Idaho.

and other radioactive elements not commonly found in nature thanks to our nuclear weapons testing. And we have created some new compounds that will be in the geologic record for a long time to come, the most ubiquitous

and conservation shape the future of nature? FIRST, NOTES FROM the CONFERENCE S FRAMING PAPER I ve read through the lengthy paper

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