The results are in, and once again they tell an interesting story. In our most recent poll, we asked if you are employing biomimicry as a source of innovation inspiration. The results can be seen to ...

Nature has already solved many of the problems businesses are struggling to fix, from energy efficiency to safer materials and smarter water systems. Biomimicry, the practice of emulating nature’s ...

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 ...

Nature is full of technologies, if you think of technologies as just tools for living. Take the frog tongue: to catch a glimpse of a frog's tongue in action, you have to be pretty sharp, or determined ...

“Learning about the natural world is one thing. Learning from the natural world – that’s the switch. That’s the profound switch.” ~ Janine Benyus Biomimicry has the potential to save the human race ...

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 ...

The first thing you notice about the entomology collections department, Lepidoptera division, at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History is a faint, elusively familiar odor. Mothballs. I briefly ...

An LGBTQ activist, a green-business consultant, and a nun walk into a redwood forest… New take on an old joke, right? But it really happened. These three were just a few of a diverse set of ...

The Ray of Hope Prize competition gives startups a chance to get their biomimetic innovations to market; entrepreneurs with nature-inspired design solutions for climate mitigation, carbon ...