From water-skipping robots to elephant-skin inspired cooling materials, engineers have continued to find inspiration in ...

The term biomimicry will be familiar to longtime readers. Science and technology which imitates phenomena from the living natural world have featured in these pages from the beginning. Here, New Atlas ...

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 ...

We live in the Anthropocene, a time that privileges the human experience above all else. The planet is continually harmed and exploited, making people seemingly oblivious to the human interactions ...

Biomimicry, the practice of learning from and mimicking nature to solve human design challenges, became a recognized science in the late 20th century, but studying and imitating the natural world has ...

When the Old Mutual insurance company hired architect Mick Pearce to build a combined office and retail building in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, they threw in a challenge: Make the building comfortable ...

Biomimicry is maybe the best idea you haven’t heard too much about. The term, for those unfamiliar, was coined by American inventor Otto Schmitt back in the 1970s, but it was author Janine Benyus 1997 ...

The natural world has continuously evolved over aeons to overcome obstacles by adapting to ever-changing environments. Engineers today are learning a great deal from the natural world around them – ...

BENGALURU: What if you could find solutions to world problems such as pollution, biodiversity depletion, poverty, unemployment by looking at nature? What if you could design better phones, clothes, ...

In our newest series, The Biomimicry Manual, we are thinking about design in a different way and asking ourselves “How would nature do it?”. Nature’s designs are tried and true, and there are a number ...