Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions
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Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Description
How can sea cucumbers, geckos and termites help us cure diseases, camouflage soldiers and even keep our buildings cool? Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through the ground-breaking new science of biomimicry - which looks to nature to solve pressing problems in engineering and science. From the depths of the oceans to the ice sheets of the Arctic, Amina Khan talks to the researchers at the forefront of this exciting new science, who are designing everything from wind turbines to military camouflage. Adapt draws the line from nature to modernity. Khan leaves no stone unturned... Readers will leave this book with a buzzing excitement. - BBC Wildlife
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| OPC | PN5C7Y |
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| Codes | 1786492296 (ISBN-10) |
| 9781786492296 (ISBN) |
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How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions
Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through the ground-breaking new science of biomimicry - which looks to nature to solve pressing problems in engineering and science.From the depths of the oceans to the ice sheets of the Arctic, Amina Khan talks to the researchers at the forefront of this exciting new science, who are designing everything from wind turbines to military camouflage. An entertaining eulogy to the power of evolution, this captivating book is a must read for anyone with an interest in design, nature and technology.
Amina Khan is a science writer at the Los Angeles Times. She's covered the Curiosity's landing on Mars and explored abandoned gold mines in pursuit of a dark matter detector.
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| Release date (DD/MM/YYYY) | 11/2018 |
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| Number of pages | 352 pages |
| Written by | Amina Khan |
| Publisher | Atlantic |
| International Standard Book Number (ISBN) | 9781786492296 |
| Book cover type | Paperback |
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