
#604 Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces
Science for the People
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How to Make Boats More Efficient
Around 90% of global trade still happens by sea. Sharkskin is astonishing, it's astonishingly detailed. A fern called the salvinia fern has an absolute mastery of repelling water from its surfaces. Scientists managed to make a surface that had these hairs on it. They even copied one of the interesting things about these salvania hairs - they're not just a straight hair.
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