Tag: fish scales
Applied Intelligent Design: Engineers Know Engineering When They See It
The adhesive properties of gecko toe pads, based on atomic van der Waals attraction, have been understood for years now.
Clever Designs in Nature Worth Imitating
As the biomimetics movement accelerates, scientists keep providing more and more examples of intelligent design in organisms great and small.
Read Carefully, Nature News Conspires to Refute Darwinism
The kingfisher bird has to dive after fish rapidly without busting its beak. Japanese scientists looked into the physics of this, and redesigned the noses of their bullet trains.