Toward a safer national chemicals policy

Biotechnology helps us understand the need for a national chemicals policy.

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Toward a safer national chemicals policy

Cleaning up cleaners with bio-surfactants

Could animal fats and other natural ingredients help detox cleaning substances?

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Cleaning up cleaners with bio-surfactants

Bio-inspired robots: A force for good or evil?

From gripping an object on an assembly line to navigation modeled off of animals’ built-in sonar, nature offers an array of enviable features for robotics researchers.

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Bio-inspired robots: A force for good or evil?

Can technology make us better stewards of wildlife?

Here’s where data analytics, sensors, virtual reality games and drones can help to protect wild lands and creatures.

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Can technology make us better stewards of wildlife?

Why we need an ‘Interdependence’ Day

From the Pope’s Encyclical to an array of alarming reports, evidence that we need to rethink our relationship with biodiversity is all around us.

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Biomimicry Challenge drives innovation at L.A. Auto Show

Inspiration struck when carmakers aimed to create sustainable vehicles based on nature. 

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Biomimicry Challenge drives innovation at L.A. Auto Show

5 tech trends mingling with bio-inspired design

Lobster-eye telescopes and 3D-printed stem cells. Where is bio-inspired design popping up next?

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5 tech trends mingling with bio-inspired design

From thin air: Making fuel like a tree

A look at how two U.S. firms pursued bio-inspired design's holy grail: artificial photosynthesis.

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From thin air: Making fuel like a tree

7 things to know about the new UN climate change report

The latest report paints a starker picture of the state of global climate change.

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Why we need to level the playing field for legal timber in Brazil

Illegal logging in Brazil poses a serious problem for businesses producing legal wood products.

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Why we need to level the playing field for legal timber in Brazil

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