You can pick up a synthetic sponge for just a few dollars. But a natural sea sponge, hand-harvested from the Mediterranean seafloor, could set you back $30. Harvesting these sponges is dangerous ...

Other natural-based medications include the painkiller morphine, which originates from a poppy plant, and exenatide which mimics a hormone in Gila monster saliva and can help treat type 2 diabetes.

Natural auxetic materials include tendons and ... but if you combine them as nature does in the deep-sea sponge, then it regulates itself and holds its form and outperforms similar materials ...

“These sponges are a great tool for removing baked-on food on pots and pans,” DiNicolantonio says. Natural sea sponges “grow on the ocean floor and are typically biodegradable ...

A team of engineers from RMIT’s Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials utilized biomimicry to develop a super-strong lattice structure that provides enhanced performance compared to ...

Natural auxetic materials include tendons and cat skin ... “Each lattice on its own has traditional deformation behaviour, but if you combine them as nature does in the deep-sea sponge, then it ...

Natural auxetic materials include tendons and cat skin ... “Each lattice on its own has traditional deformation behaviour, but if you combine them as nature does in the deep-sea sponge, then it ...

But instead it allows this species to burrow into its body. Living inside the sponge, the worm is provided with protection from other deep-sea-dwelling predators. But the sponge may benefit too, ...