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<p>Fabrics that are not only stain resistant but actually clean themselves. Airplane wings that change shape in midair to take advantage of shifts in wind currents. Hypodermic needles that use tiny serrations to render injections virtually pain free.</p> <p>Though they may sound like the stuff of science fiction, in fact such inventions represent only the most recent iterations of natural mechanisms that are billions of years old—the focus of the rapidly growing field of biomimetics. Based on the realization that natural selection has for countless eons been conducting trial-and-error experiments with the laws of physics, chemistry, material science, and engineering, biomimetics takes nature as its laboratory, looking to the most successful developments and strategies of an array of plants and animals as a source of technological innovation and ideas. Thus the lotus flower, with its waxy, water-resistant surface, gives us stainproofing; the feathers of raptors become transformable airplane wings; and the nerve-deadening serrations on a mosquito’s proboscis are adapted to hypodermics.</p> <p>With <i>Bulletproof Feathers</i>, Robert Allen brings together some of the greatest minds in

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Author

Robert Allen

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226014708

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Medical, Biology

Rating

5 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14