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  Melissa Sterry

  

  24 bio and by-product based materials for 2024.

  materialsource.co.uk

  Since Material Source first started, we’ve given a platform, and a voice, to those blazing a trail in developing bio and by-product based …

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  Melissa Sterry

  Structure and mechanics of water-holding feathers of Namaqua sandgrouse (Pterocles namaqua)

  royalsocietypublishing.org - J. Mueller L. J. Gibson 1Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Volume 20, Issue 201, April 2023.

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  Melissa Sterry

  

  Textured Building Façades: Utilizing Morphological Adaptations Found in Nature for Evaporative Cooling

  mdpi.com

  1. Introduction The overheating of buildings and the need for mechanical cooling is a growing issue due to climate change. It is noted that the …

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  Melissa Sterry

  

  US buildings kill up to a billion birds a year. These architects want to save them

  The Guardian - Maanvi Singh

  Highly transparent glass can lead to devastating collisions. But innovations in design are creating safer skylines – without sacrificing beauty

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  Melissa Sterry

  

  ‘Biocomputer’ combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware

  nature.com - Lilly Tozer

  A system that integrates brain cells into a hybrid machine can recognize voices. Lilly Tozer Researchers have built a hybrid biocomputer — combining …

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  Melissa Sterry

  

  Fungal machines: building computers and sensors from nature

  techhq.com - James Tyrrell

  GREEN TECH Fungal machines open the door to building self-assembling, self-repairing, biodegradable computers for sensing human stress and much more. 6 …