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Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48-billion-year-old Australian rocks
▻https://phys.org/news/2017-05-oldest-evidence-life-billion-year-old-australian.html

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Previously, the world’s oldest evidence for microbial life on land came from 2.7- 2.9 billion year old deposits in South Africa containing organic matter-rich ancient soils.
“Our exciting findings don’t just extend back the record of life living in hot springs by 3 billion years, they indicate that life was inhabiting the land much earlier than previously thought, by up to about 580 million years,” says study first author, UNSW PhD candidate, Tara Djokic.

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New Material Sucks Water From the Air and Stores It | Singularity Hub
▻http://singularityhub.com/2014/06/30/new-material-sucks-water-from-the-air-and-stores-it

“It doesn’t require any external energy, and it keeps water inside the forest,” said Sehmus Ozden, a graduate student in Pulickel Ajayan’s lab and the first author of the paper.

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The nanotube forest is also reusable: You can wring it out like a washcloth. biomimicry, nanotechnology, technology, water, nanotubesYou could also think of the forest as a futuristic cup that gets the water for you and contains it until it’s needed.