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Bone Setting Glue
- skmurphy 17y agoThis was fascinating for me, they found the solution by analyzing how the sandcastle worm secreted a glue in seawater that glued pieces of sand together to make it's home. Key paragraph: "The worm has to overcome several problems when putting a sandcastle together underwater," Stewart says. "Its adhesive has to adhere to wet surfaces, and when it's secreting that adhesive under water, it has to prevent it from just dissolving into the ocean." Although the glue starts out as fluid, it must harden into a solid. "The worm has solved all of these problems, and we're trying to copy those solutions," he says.
- DTrejo 17y agoThis site has a whole list of techniques that nature uses to solve its problems. Very useful if you have an unsolvable problem or wasteful solution. http://www.asknature.org/ http://www.asknature.org/
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