Creativity break: how is creativity in biology changing the world? | Khan Academy

[Music] I think it's really exciting how biology and creativity have combined, particularly in the area of health and outcomes. How do we help people with blindness? How do we help people who are paraplegic?

Where we can start to read the electrical activity of their intended movement and have a robot do that, so they can gain, you know, that activity again and have that power in their lives again. I think that is a classic and beautiful example of the combination of biology and creativity making our lives better every single day.

Butterflies use something called structural color, which involves bending light to generate color instead of using a bunch of pigment. So it definitely saves the butterflies a bunch of energy in making that pigment.

But now, because of some observant and innovative scientists, it's saving us energy too. It's being used in screens around the world to make them more efficient at projecting color, which reduces the carbon footprint of some of our most common electronics.

And how about the creativity of using mRNA, which is pretty much just biological text messages, to give our bodies a heads up that they need to recognize dangerous viruses? It's the technology being used in some of our most innovative vaccines right now. [Music]