How does nature make durable materials like corals without heat or a kiln? How do peacock feathers get their beautiful colors? And how do geckos stick to all kinds of surfaces, allowing them to run up ...

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 use of biomimicry to form nature-inspired oleogels could help manufacturers to better structure unsaturated fats to replace trans fats, say researchers. The desire to swap out trans fats and ...

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Since the dawn of time, nature has been toiling hard to construct everyone and everything to the highest benchmarks. There are a number of fascinating examples of how animals are able to survive ...

Birds do it. Bees do it. And now, increasingly, aircraft engineers are falling in love with the idea of studying the natural world to find solutions that can be adapted and applied to the design of ...

Windows that prevent bird collisions by mimicking the UV-reflective qualities of spider webs; a train that travels faster, uses less energy and makes less noise after it was redesigned to resemble a ...