adhere to water
91. Nasal surfaces remove water vapor: camel
"We have found that camels can reduce the water loss due to evaporation from the respiratory tract in two ways: (1) by decreasing the temperature of the exhaled air and (2) by removal of water vapour from this air, resulting in the exhalation of a...
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Email92. Lichen sucks water from air without getting waterlogged.
A water-repellant strategy thought to be used by substrate-hygrophytic lichen (those that draw water from the substrate) is the use of a film of hydrophobins across the lichen's surface (Valadares 1994). Hydrophobins are small peptides rich in sul...
93. Threads adhere underwater: sea cucumber
"Patrick Flammang of the University of Mons, Belgium, is studying the sea cucumber. The sea cucumber, a relative of the starfish, protects itself from predators by ejecting, in a matter of seconds, fine, sticky threads that entangle an attacker an...
94. Ear flaps keep water out: otters
"Among aquatic mammals such as the otter, the ear-flap can be pressed down to close the ear to water." (Foy and Oxford Scientific Films 1982:167)
95. Water strider legs stay dry.
“Water striders (Gerris remigis) have remarkable non-wetting legs that enable them to stand effortlessly and move quickly on water, a feature believed to be due to a surface-tension effect caused by secreted wax.(1–3) We show here, however, th...
96. Silk protects from flooding, captures water: barking spider
"The whistling spider uses a silk film over the entrance to its burrow to maintain humidity, and a silk-covered mound at the burrow entrance traps dew or raindrops for drinking and helps prevent flooding in heavy rain. The air trapped around the s...
97. Organ on a chip
Researchers at the Wyss Institute have developed a system for replicating complex, 3-dimensional tissues in the human body using circuitry combined with living cells. These proxy-organs will facilitate rapid, sophisticated testing without the need...
98. drinkingwatercooler
Drinking water cooler is essential to allow you clean and distilled drinking water cooler. Drinking water cooler are essentially important for the health and safety
99. Polar Thermos Cozy
This product is essentially a skin for thermoses in order to insulate them and to especially keep colder water away from the surface of the thermos which can rapidly induce heat loss. This system simulates blubber with insulation in between two la...
100. Cells provide strength: wood
"Because plant structures are formed by the assembly of cellular units, tensile materials made from cellulose do not contain the long, continuous fibers characteristic of such tensile materials as tendon. Rather, tensile plant materials consist o...
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