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 ...

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 ...

Sustainable development is moving to a new level where buildings are integral to nature, supporting nature’s work rather than interfering with life-sustaining ecosystems. HOK, the world’s largest ...

Our biomimicry challenge What Would You Ask Nature? drew dozens of real-world business problems submitted by companies from all over the world. We assigned three challenges to three firms and paired ...

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 ...

Designers and scientists are fusing biomimicry—the emulation of nature’s time-tested strategies—with artificial intelligence to create more sustainable, efficient, and innovative solutions. From ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...