Nature has really good: Copy there

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Finding drinking water in the desert could be easier than it seems.Enough to copy the method beetle Tenebrionidae Stenocara, precisely described in Nature by scientists from Oxford University (Britain), Andrew Parker and Chris Lawrence.

The Stenocara lives in the Namib desert.Strong winds, extreme temperatures, rain almost non-existent ... So many features that make this region of southern Africa a part of life for most inhospitable.Yet the small insecte it survives.His secret? He manages to collect water from the dense fog that falls on the desert in the early days.He leans his body forward in the wind and expects to form drops of water on its élytres, these hard wings that cover the wings below like a shield.They then have to sink into his mouth."Until now, the mechanism by which water is extracted from air and condenses into large droplets had never been explained despite its potential bionics," surprised the two British researchers.