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Popular YouTube Science Educator Professes “Emotional” Response to “Amazing” Flagellum

In the video, engineer Destin Sandlin explains how he became captivated after watching an online animation of the bacterial flagellum. Read More ›
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Photo: A sling-jaw wrasse, by Alain Feulvarch, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Paper Digest: Ten Biomechanical Animal Joints Enable Extreme Performance

The amazing design structures in organisms provide engineers with inspiring templates for creating better products. Read More ›
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Paper Digest: Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology

Throughout this paper, Stuart Burgess emphasizes the supremacy of natural systems over human-engineered ones. Read More ›
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Photo credit: John Liu, via Flickr (cropped).

Dandelions, Darwin’s Bark Spider, and More: No Shortage of Biological Wonders

Those of us who find purpose in biology instead of random tinkering will not run out of material to get excited about any time soon. Read More ›

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