Janine Benyus helped bring the word biomimicry into 21st century vocabularies in her 1997 book on the subject. Her company, The Biomimicry Group, encourages biologists at the design table to ask: how ...

A wind turbine designed to incorporate the bumps on a whale's tale. A fast-growing rice that needs half the normal amount of water to grow, thanks to observation of a hot-spring fungi. A video display ...

With many using this time at home to learn new skills, online courses are rising in popularity and one South African organisation has launched a timely programme to embark on, whilst considering what ...

Animals, plants and microbes are eternal engineers, possessing a power of innovation that humanity can merely watch in awe. They are in a constant flux of change, adapting and evolving to fit with the ...

Michael Pawlyn believes in biomimicry -- the study of natural structures and processes in order to help solve man-made problems. The architect has founded his own architectural firm based on its ...

Nature is the planet’s most creative, and by default, greenest designer, and has inspired humankind to come up with better solutions since the dawn of time. “So much has changed in the past few ...

The Biomimicry Institute recently teamed up with Autodesk to launch AskNature.org, an incredible source of information for the growing community of professionals researching and applying the ...

To solve its hose-wear problem, engineers at Parker Hannifin turned to snake scales for inspiration. Parker Hannifin had a problem. One of its customers -- an Italian cement maker -- was having some ...

Zoom in to the inner world of your veins, arteries and capillaries, and you'll find an engineering marvel: the red blood cell. Disc-shaped and flexible, millions of these oxygen transporters can be ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." We love biomimicry ...