The UK pavilion at Expo 2010, colloquially known as the Seed Cathedral, was a sculpture structure built by a nine member conglomeration of British business and government resources directed by designer Thomas Heatherwick. It referenced the race to save seeds from around the world in banks, and housed 250,000 plan seeds at the end of 60,000 acrylic rods, held in place by geometrically-cut holes with the rods inserted therein, each 7.5 metres long and each encasing one or more seeds at its tip. During the day, they act as optic fibres and draw daylight inwards to illuminate the interior. At night, light sources inside each rod allow the whole structure to glow. As the wind moves past, the building and its optic “hairs” gently move to create a dynamic effect. Source: Wikipedia, Despoke.com El pabellón del Reino Unido en la Expo 2010, coloquialmente conocida como la Catedral de Semillas, era una escultura construida por un conjunto de nueve miembros de empresariales y recursos gubernamentales británicos dirigidos por el diseñador Thomas Heatherwick. Se hace referencia a la carrera para salvar las semillas en los bancos, y albergaba más de 250.000 semillas dentro de 60.000 barras de acrílico, alojadas dentro de varias cortadas geométricamente, cada uno de 7,5 metros de largo encerrando una o más semillas en su punta. Durante el día, actuaban como fibras ópticas y dibujaban la luz del día hacia el interior. Por la noche, fuentes de luz dentro de cada varilla permitían que toda la estructura brillara. A medida que soplana el viento, el edificio y sus "pelos" ópticos se movían suavemente para crear un efecto dinámico.
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Aquascaping is the craft of arranging aquatic plants, as well as rocks, stones, cavework, or driftwood, in an aesthetically pleasing manner within an aquarium in effect, gardening under water. Aquascape designs include a number of distinct styles, including the garden-like Dutch style and the Japanese-inspired nature style. Typically, an aquascape houses fish as well as plants, although it is possible to create an aquascape with plants only, or with rockwork or other hardscape and no plants.
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The only species in its unique genus, Australia’s Myobatrachus gouldii is even more divergent than the purple frog, having adapted to a mole-like existence of tunneling underground and breaking into termite nests, poking their comically small heads into the bug’s burrows and slurping them up. Rather than reproducing in water like a majority of other Anura, turtle frogs breed in their burrows and young skip past the tadpole phase, remaining in their eggs until they’ve formed into pin-headed burrowers themselves.
Source: frogs-are-awesome A graduate student has created the first man-made biological leaf. It absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant. He did this by suspending chloroplasts in a mixture made out of silk protein. He believed it can be used for many things but the most striking one is the thought that it could be used for long distance space travel. Plants do not grow in space, but this synthetic material can be used to produce oxygen in a hostile environment.
Source: sixpenceee Un estudiante de postgrado ha creado la primera hoja biológica artificial. Absorbe agua y dióxido de carbono para producir oxígeno como una planta. Este prototipo de realizo suspendiendo los cloroplastos en una mezcla con proteína de seda, se cree que puede utillizarse para muchas cosas, pero la idea más llamativa es que puede ser utilizada para viajes espaciales de larga distancia, ya que las plantas no crecen en el espacio, pero este material sintético puede ser utilizado para producir oxígeno en una ambiente hostil. Fuente: sixpenceee
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