biomimetics

The biomimetic and bionic internet portal www.biomimetik.dk now offers its visitors a chance to browse through international peer reviewed research papers on biomimetics.

Read more by clicking here .

The paper database uses the open source Drupal module 'Bibliography Module' developed by Ron Jerome. Click here to learn more about it.

Scientists are well aware that the majority of the research papers they publish in scientific journals, usually are only read by a few colleagues and fellow specialists in the area. Thus scientists are mostly pleased when their papers reach a wider audience. However, there are situations where this does not fully apply.

I had a review paper about biomimetics and my doctoral research on locomotion in ragworms published in the journal Naturwisseschaften in July. I have just discovered that this paper has been discussed and commented upon in a blog about intelligent design (ID, the idea that living things are so complex and perfectly designed that they cannot have arisen by a random evolutionary process. Instead there must be some non-defined intelligent designer, i.e. God, behind).

Battlesuits, drones, clones, and androids - anything to mimic, or improve upon, nature.

All of this can be found at Wired Magazine's annual NextFest, a carnival that showcases that latest in futuristic and sometimes lifelike technology.