Apr 13 2010
And nature again gives more than we could believe possible.
A recipe for using “the world’s most useful tree” to purify water is being offered for free download, in the hope that this will help get clean drinking water to billions of poor folk around the world.
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Apr 08 2010
Just when you think we know it all a wasp shows us the way. Imagine what else the natural world has to show us if we only took the time to look.
Wasps learned how to use sophisticated antibiotics millions of years before the invention of penicillin, research has shown.
Digger wasps of the family Philanthus, also known as ”beewolves”, harness beneficial bacteria to manufacture a cocktail of drugs that protect its larvae from infection.
