SciShow's video: Squid Proteins but Make Them Fashion

Humans often take inspiration from nature when coming up with inventions, and this includes breakthroughs in fabric design that help to forward the fabulous and functional world of fashion. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Marwan Hassoun, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://asknature.org/strategy/wing-scales-cause-light-to-diffract-and-interfere/ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1999.0794 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2003.2618 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2010.0487 https://asknature.org/strategy/fur-absorbs-infrared-radiation-to-prevent-heat-loss/ https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IMECE/proceedings-abstract/IMECE2002/36509/57/312584 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1672652916604274 https://www.zju.edu.cn/english/2018/0302/c19573a811162/page.htm https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201706807 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2194581-squid-teeth-could-help-make-bioplastics-and-self-repairing-clothes/ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsami.6b05232 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2019.00069/full?utm_source=fweb&utm_medium=nblog&utm_campaign=ba-sci-fchem-squid-plastic Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/natural-arrangement-of-sea-shells-and-barnacles-on-a-rock-gm518800145-49290120 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-drop-of-contact-glue-on-a-black-background-gm1088096566-291908555 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/humpback-whale-jumping-in-puerto-lopez-ecuador-gm500707522-80873155 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/one-windmill-gm504366421-44351954 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blue-morpho-butterfly-gm541289746-96802049 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morpho_sulkowskyi_wings.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/brightly-lit-powder-blue-folded-satin-fabric-gm589099144-101172673 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wild-polar-bear-going-in-water-on-pack-ice-in-arctic-sea-gm1070608838-286461348 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-picture-of-a-polar-bear-sitting-in-snow-gm184108004-16714952 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/white-rattan-textured-backgrounds-gm498430242-79647079 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/squid-eating-a-fish-gm515887748-88724103 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/turquoise-knitted-background-gm681774368-125049575 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/bigfin-reef-squid-sepioteuthis-lessoniana-mansinam-island-cenderawasih-bay-indonesia-gm177582318-26645618 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/polar-bear-gm531657411-55502838 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/bright-blue-butterfly-flying-against-a-white-backdrop-gm175492317-21066284 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/woman-gold-dress-fashion-model-dancing-in-evening-silk-gown-waving-fabric-gm902420324-248921032