Via MSNBC via Discovery, news that scientists hope to create a sunscreen product inspired by hippo sweat. I liked the closing comment.
“As a student said to me several years ago, nature is full of solutions to our technical problems,” he said. “We just have to figure out how to look in the right place, and ask the right questions.”
Check out the video of collecting sweat samples (though you’ll have to put up with the dorky commentary from the two NBC anchors).