Scientists may have just invented an amazing new way to clean up oil spills by mimicking the ingenious physics of cactus needles. Cactus needles are not just for warding off animals trying get a taste ...

Cactus-inspired micro needles have been used to remove tiny oil droplets from water with almost 100 percent efficiency. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing have developed a ...

When Ju Jie and her colleagues published the results of their research into the fog-collecting abilities of cactus in the science journal Nature in December, she hoped it might one day help save the ...