Adapt - Amina Khan

Adapt

How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2017 | Main
Atlantic Books (Verlag)
978-1-78649-227-2 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
Explore the science of biomimicry: full of fascinating natural facts, ingenious ideas and a glimpse into the future of human innovation.
Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas through the ground-breaking new science of biomimicry - which looks to nature to solve pressing problems in engineering and science.

From the depths of the oceans to the ice sheets of the Arctic, Amina Khan talks to the researchers at the forefront of this exciting new science, who are designing everything from wind turbines to military camouflage. An entertaining eulogy to the power of evolution, this captivating book is a must read for anyone with an interest in design, nature and technology.

AMINA KHAN is a science writer at the Los Angeles Times. She's covered the Curiosity's landing on Mars and explored abandoned gold mines in pursuit of a dark matter detector. She's an aluma of the Kavli nanotechnology workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the HiPACC computational astrophysics bootcamp at UC Santa Cruz.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 226 mm
Gewicht 420 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Evolution
Technik
ISBN-10 1-78649-227-X / 178649227X
ISBN-13 978-1-78649-227-2 / 9781786492272
Zustand Neuware
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