Biomimicry can occur in both form and process. The beak of the kingfisher bird inspired the redesigned Japanese bullet train. While the abalone shell and its alternating layers of hard and soft ...

Through most of the industrial age, we have been getting by on our own wits and inventions for new product designs. But now few savvy manufacturers are beginning look back at nature's laboratory to ...

Concrete is the most consumed material on our planet, second only to water; and consumption has dramatically increased over the last few decades with the proliferation of the human population. Today, ...

When the Wright brothers were figuring out how to build an airplane, they took inspiration from some of the fliers of the natural world - birds. Nature has had a long time to perfect its ways, so why ...

For some, whale watching is a tourist activity. For Gunter Pauli, it is a source of technological inspiration. "I see a whale, I see a six-to-12-volt electric generator that is able to pump 1,000 ...

For me, biomimicry has it all. As a biologist, I love the insights it provides into the living world, and the respect and care for living things it inspires. As someone working in the green business ...

The approach can be applied across industries including business, engineering and architecture. Students can draw inspiration from nature to develop innovative services or products. Image used for ...

Designers and engineers have often looked to the environment and how Mother Nature has accomplished phenomenal design solutions for inspiration over the ages. Perhaps all that is new about this ...

Since the dawn of the industrial Revolution, manufacturers have been building things by a process that is now known as "heat, beat, and treat." That meant starting with a raw material and using ...

The quest for more effective and efficient ways to clean man-made surfaces and fabrics is long standing. Time, money, and environmental cost are always involved. In contrast, many plants seem able to ...