Adapt : How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions

Amina Khan

ISBN 10: 178649227X / ISBN 13: 9781786492272

Published by Atlantic Books Jun 2017, 2017

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Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adapt : How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions
• Publisher: Atlantic Books Jun 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178649227X
• ISBN 13: 9781786492272
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 226W x 153H x 27D millimeters 226 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 502 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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. She's an aluma of the Kavli nanotechnology workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the HiPACC computational astrophysics bootcamp at UC Santa Cruz.