Zoethica

This blog is being brought back from a long break and it will be a collection of notes and everything we have learned in the last nine yea...

Muscle cells from rat were cultured on thin films of polydimethylsiloxane. The alignment of the resulting muscles was achieved by culturing ...

Langer's team was inspired by the nanoscopic morphology of gecko's feet while developing a new generation of medical adhesives that ...

Authors: William McDonough and Michael Braungart Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: North Point Press; 1 edition (April 22, 2002) In Cradle ...

Eduardo Kac's "GFP Bunny" was born in 2000 and first presented publicly in Avignon, France. According to Kac, "transgenic...

Until recently, preventing the adhesion of marine organisms to ship hulls and underwater structures meant using biocide-containing paints t...

Researchers at Penn State University have harnessed the ability of bacteria to extract hydrogen from almost any biodegradable organic substa...

Moss is a wonderful alternative to paint or even spray paint. The recipe is so simple that anyone can prepare this "paint" in thei...

Author: Janine M. Benyus Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 17, 2002) The sophisticated, almost pro-growth angle...

Robert Wood began working on a robotic fly as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley in the late 1990s. Now as an assi...

Blue Morph is an interactive installation that uses nanoscale images and sounds derived from the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butte...

Researchers at MIT have developed a remote control for turning certain genes on and off. They achieved it by binding a nanoscopic gold parti...

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland whose art is made of natural and found material...

The full potential of biomass is not fully utilized even with already well established production of alternative fuels. Many products in bio...

Everything you always wanted to know about snowflakes is beautifully documented on snowcrystals.com . Kenneth G. Libbrecht, the author of th...

The nuclear pore complex is an amazing piece of protein machinery residing at the interface between cell's nucleus and cytoplasm. It is ...

Even Charles Darwin was amazed by its complexity and unusual material properties and debated whether the vertebrate eye was a result of natu...

Researcher Josef Stuefer at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands has analyzed clover plants and not only shown that these plants form u...

In his recent news article in Nature, Philip Ball offers two conflicting opinions by researchers who study soil bacteria. There is a strong ...

Scientists at the Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan have fabricated microscopic tracks for Gluconacetobacter xylinus, bacteria that craw...