Sea Sponges Master Nano-technology

Mick Ohrberg writes "It has been discovered that sea sponges utilizes a biomolecular mechanism to direct nanofabrication of silica to create microscopic glass fibers. It's a protein that acts as a catalyst for the formation of glass from the biomineral. What's it all lead to? Hopefully a way to achieve nanostructural fabrication at low temperatures, instead of in vacuum and at high temperatures as with current technologies."

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It's like deja-vu all over again

[wowbagger]

http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/08/20/23424 9.shtml?tid=134&tid=191

repost

[Figaro]

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/2 0/234249&mode=nested

Re:Article is a dupe

[zero_offset]

For some reason it's not showing up when I search the archives though.

A lot of "archived" articles have gone missing. I realized this last year when I searched for a comment which I happened to print when it was current. (It was totally off-topic -- the article was about dark matter or something like that -- but some guy wrote a fantastic step-by-step guide to making perfect seared fillet mignon.) After that I checked a few times, and here and there stories apparently just "disappear" -- even ones that have huge amounts of activity.