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1. Bird-of-Paradise Flower

   30 Jul 2019

   The Bird-of-Paradise Flower or Strelitzia is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. Academics from the University of Stuttgart were tasked to develop a hingeless louvre system that can be developed for irregularly shaped buildings. After analysing a number of plant species, they settled on the pollination mechanism of the Strelitzia reginae. The…

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2. Planes, trains and automobiles

   28 Jun 2019

   Engineers and designers can learn a lot from the way that nature utilises diverse materials in complex ways. We lived in harmony with the natural world before the Industrial Revolution. That changed with the advent of new manufacturing processes in the mid-eighteenth century.  We are now seeing a change whereby science…

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