Biomimics

The Top Biotech and Medicine Advances to Expect in 2019 2019 will likely see gene drives used in the wild, a universal flu vaccine, further advance of brain-machine interfaces, and more.

A Bus-Sized Robot Will Soon Be Mining the Ocean Floor If everything goes according to plan, the 12-meter-long robot will descend into the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a 1.7 million square mile abyssal plain.

The Tangled Web of Turning Spider Silk Into a Super Material Spider silk is five times stronger than steel. Researchers have been untangling the protein-based fiber’s structure down to the molecular level.