Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Here's a riddle for you, a man is standing in the desert. He's thirsty, parched, and surrounded by fresh water but he can't drink. Why? He's ...

A 3D-printed Janus microchannel heat sink inspired by desert beetles enables ultrafast bubble removal and prevents CPU thermal throttling.

Two-thirds of the world's population faces an extreme water shortage at least one month a year. Many of these places are dry, arid deserts with no reliable source of fresh water — other than fog, that ...

The Namib Desert Beetle has a neat trick for slaking its thirst in desert conditions. The beetle’s shell is lined with small bumps that draw and condense atmospheric moisture into droplets of water, ...

There is apparently a beetle in Africa’s Namib Desert that saves water droplets on its back from fog, so it will have water to drink later. A researcher at MIT is now trying to use this ingenious ...

In the Namib desert—one of the driest places in the world—a tiny species of beetle climbs the dunes, leans its body toward the wind, and catches the only source of water it can: passing droplets of ...

The Namib desert beetle collects water from the air using the unique waterproof bumps on its back. Credit: Getty Images Bank Scientists have developed a way to convert water vapor in the air into ...

Fog harvesting — a technology similar to the moisture farms used on the desert planet Tatooine in Star Wars — has the potential to provide fresh water in certain areas on Earth, scientists say. In ...

Inspired by an obscure desert beetle, polymer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) came up with a way to construct test surfaces with a variable affinity for water.

SEATTLE, November 26, 2019 -- Fog harvesting is a potential practical source of fresh water in foggy coastal deserts, and current solutions rely on meter scale nets/meshes. The mesh geometry, however, ...