Learning From Birds And Bees: Engineers Study Insects For Ideas On Tiny "Micro Air Vehicles"
...eorgiaInstitute of Technology February 19-20. The agenda for the <AHREF="http://spbtrc.gtri.gatech.edu/MicroVehicle/">"First InternationalConference on Emerging Technologies for Micro Air Vehicles" includes17 technical presentations from more than a dozen organizations studyingthe rapidly-expandin...Bacterium gobbles up chlorinated pollutants
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