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Showing posts with label bioengineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bioengineering. Show all posts

9/12/21

EXTREME CONTROVERSY! WILL DUMPING ROCK INTO THE GREAT BARRIER REEF CHANGE THE ACIDIFICATION KILLING CORALS?

MOTHER JONES ENVIRONMENT - GEOENGINEERING TRICK SAVE REEF?   by Graham Readfearn

Will dumping rock or nanocrystals of salt do the trick?  Corals cannot build skeletons when the ocean waters are so acidic?  In this article the possible positives are discussed as well as a significant negative... it would have to be done every three months - forever?

2/15/14

CUTTLEFISH COLOR CHANGES MAY PROVIDE TECHNOLOGY FOR BATTLEFIELD CAMOUFLAGE

UPI SCIENCE - CAMOUFLAGE INSPIRATION - CUTTLEFISH  full article

... Nature solved the riddle of adaptive camouflage a long time ago," Harvard bioengineering Professor Kevin Kit Parker said. "Now the challenge is to reverse-engineer this system in a cost-efficient, synthetic system that is amenable to mass manufacturing."  Neurall controlled pigmented organs called chromatophore allow a cuttlefish to change its color...