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  • SLIPS
    The pitchers' tube-shaped leaves have microscopic bumps that hold a thin layer of water.
  • Pitcher Plant
    This pitcher plant-inspired nonstick technology can be used for anti-icing coatings.
  • Hagfish Defense
    The hagfish protects itself by releasing a mass of slime that chokes the predator.
  • Pizza Transistor
    Researchers are using nano-wires to cram more transitors into a computer chip.
  • Jellyfish
    These buoys can move through the ocean for months with little more than a battery.
  • Shrinking Chips
    Silicon transistors allow engineers to shrink a transistor to the size of a few atoms.
  • Shape Memory Alloys
    These metals "remember" their original shape and revert to it when heated.
  • Invisibility Cloak
    Researchers are bending microwaves to make an invisibility cloak device from radar.
  • Bird Wings
    Some day shape memory alloys could help build airplane wings that bend.
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