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The article offers information on the back-to-nature designs at Missoula's Biomimicry Institute in Missoula, Montana. It states that Biomimicry is about designing with intent to make the world better and more efficient for all inhabitants. It notes that Japan's electric bullet train is a graphic case of mimicking a form of nature that naturally lead to efficiencies. Moreover, Biomimicry Institute works with less formal education projects like designing terms of biology.

The article focuses on the crowdsourcing projects which help deaf students to find and share science-related signs. It states that several universities implement crowdsourcing projects in both American Sign Language and British Sign Language which enable deaf students to combine signs for commonly used terms. It says that the Scottish Sensory Centre's British Sign Language Glossary Project is one of the resources which has added 116 new signs for physics and engineering terms.

Reports that biological metaphors are used to describe computer software virus. Comments from biologists and computer scientists; Examples of such metaphors; Distinction between virus and worm. INSET: Digital Dangers.