Articles for tag: Animal Defense, Biomimicry, Nature’s Innovation, Science Fiction, SciFi Weapons

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10 Times Nature Invented Sci-Fi Weapons – First

Suhail Ahmed

Across reefs, rivers, forests, and deserts, a quiet arms race has been running for millions of years – long before humans dreamed up laser cannons or tasers. Biologists keep uncovering natural weapons that look uncannily like the gadgets of our most inventive science fiction. These living systems don’t just shock, blind, glue, and jam; they ...

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What If Life Had Evolved to Breathe Something Other Than Oxygen?

Suhail Ahmed

We treat oxygen like the star of biology, but for most of Earth’s history it was barely a cameo. Long before forests greened the continents, microbes thrived by shuttling electrons into minerals, acids, and salts that would sound more at home in a chemistry set than a lung. Today, as we scan other worlds, a ...