When nature inspires and drives technology

When nature inspires and drives technology

« Apprenez de la nature et vous y trouverez votre avenir » : comme Léonard de Vinci, créateur d’un engin volant reproduisant le vol des oiseaux, nombre de scientifiques et d’ingénieurs continuent de s’inspirer de la nature pour alimenter les innovations technologiques. L’année 2023 a été un bon cru en la matière.

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When nature comes to our aid

L’effondrement de la biodiversité n’est pas une catastrophe pour le monde animal seulement. Elle nous concerne aussi, de manière directe. Car, menacés par la crise climatique et les activités humaines, animaux et plantes sont plus que jamais utiles et précieux pour l’humanité et continuent d’inspirer des découvertes scientifiques, parfois de

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Pesticides inspired by nature, without chemical poisons: it's possible.

Pesticides inspired by nature, without chemical poisons: it's possible.

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La hantise des agriculteurs comme de tout jardinier est de voir leurs cultures soigneusement entretenues ravagées par des hordes d’insectes affamés. Le moyen utilisé abondamment pour résoudre ce problème a longtemps été l’usage d’insecticides, nocifs pour l’environnement comme pour la santé humaine. Pour les remplacer, certains utilisent d’autres insectes pour

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biomimicry

A tidal turbine inspired by the swimming of fishes

Research inspired by 3.8 billion years of living R&D Biomimicry is a fast-growing approach, at the heart of the breakthrough innovation strategies of research centres, large companies and start-ups, on many subjects, including the energy transition. The approach makes it possible, in particular, to break out of the

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neem

Innovation in medicines: inspiration comes from nature

Morphine and codeine painkillers, taxol (anticancer), artemisinin (antimalarial) or aspirin... All these drugs have the particularity of having been discovered in plants or being derived from them. In fact, even today, as for millennia, the environment still provides us with most of the compounds that enable us to treat ourselves. To identify

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biomimicry

New chameleon-colored skin implants

Biological tissues have complex mechanical properties that are difficult to reproduce with synthetic materials. An international team has succeeded in producing a biocompatible synthetic material that behaves like biological tissues and changes colour as it deforms, like the skin of chameleons. They promise materials

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Floods

Floods: Bacteria to the rescue to build dykes

While the floods currently affecting parts of the country are disrupting the landscape and causing damage amounting to hundreds of millions of euros, the need for dykes is felt more than ever. A Lyon-based company is experimenting with a revolutionary process based on biomimicry: using bacteria to create a new type of dyke.

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Conus Textile

In search of the algorithms of the living

There is a tendency to oppose the artificial and technological world of algorithms to the natural and biological world of life. And yet, nowadays, algorithms have become indispensable for studying the complexity of living things. Hence the growing importance of computer tools, exacerbated by the proliferation of data: witness, sequencing

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bioeconomy

Bioeconomy: it's everyone's business!

Here we are! The BioRESP Forum opens its first edition this Thursday, June 1st. A high point for this new framework and dialogue tool that aims to collectively anticipate the reconfigurations of society and value chains that the bio-economy will bring about. All stakeholders, consumers in

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biomimicry

Biomimicry: nature is 4 billion years of R&D

The entire community of biomimicry players, as well as the curious and those who want to discover how the world is changing, met in Senlis on 1 and 2 July, under the auspices of Ceebios, France's leading development centre for this cutting-edge sector. Biomimicry at the forefront

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biomim'expo

Biomimicry exposed for the first time

Biomim'expo will take place on July 1st and 2nd. For the first time, the project is launched to gather on the site of Ceebios in Senlis all the actors who are interested, or already working, in bio-inspired approaches. For a great participative and collective meeting around biomimicry, in a hybrid atmosphere between universities and research centres.

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