Category: Plants & Technology
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Are Mushrooms The Building Technology Of The Future?
But it is only when you examine one of those bricks close-up that you get a sense of what the future might hold. Using bioengineering, this structure has been made from mushrooms.
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The Science of Turning Plants Into Booze
Human beings pretty much always find a way when it comes to getting hammered.
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Plants May Locate Forgotten Land Mines
Wars may end, but land mines last for decades. These deadly explosives can be cleared, but the task is often dangerous and time-consuming. Someday, there may be an easier way: Plants could indicate where mines lay hidden underground, according to researchers
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In The Future We Will Drive Trees
One day, we’ll make and fuel our cars with trees.
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Metal-Munching Plants Are Our Friends
Over 1,000 species of plants are known to gobble up and store heavy metals, including a host of toxic elements such as nickel, cadmium, zinc, arsenic, and selenium. There are even some plants that store gold. Some of these plants store enough metals to make them toxic to animals like cattle, and a few of them are even mined for the metals they contain.
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Tree’s Seeds Shown As Effective Low Cost Water Purifier
Seeds of Moringa oliefera, commonly known as Sehjan or drumsticks, have the potential to remove impurities from contaminated water and make it safe for drinking
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Scientists Hack Plants With Nanotubes to Supercharge Photosynthesis
Even at their most productive, plants can normally only absorb about 10 percent of full sunlight. So, science to the rescue.
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Need a water filter? Peel a tree branch
Researchers demonstrate that a small piece of sapwood can filter out more than 99 percent of the bacteria E. coli from water.
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Duckweed For Diesel?
Understanding which genes produce which traits will allow researchers to create new varieties of duckweed with enhanced biofuel traits, such as increased reduction of cellulose or increased starch or even higher lipid production.
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Carnivorous Plant Inspires New Glass technology
Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS) — the slipperiest synthetic surface known — was inspired by the slick strategy of the carnivorous pitcher plant, which lures insects onto the ultraslippery surface of its leaves, where they slide to their doom. Unlike earlier water-repelling materials, SLIPS repels oil and sticky liquids like honey, and it resists ice formation and bacterial biofilms as well.