Innovation doesn’t always mean creating something entirely new. Some of the most remarkable breakthroughs come from observing ...

Our biomimicry challenge What Would You Ask Nature? assigned three challenges, and teams are now reporting their bio-inspired solutions. After having a discussion with IBM, and walking through some ...

Imagine a system that has been conducting research and design not for tens, hundreds or even thousands, but billions of years. What if you took these time-tested principles, and applied them to other ...

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 ...

In a recent article published by the Financial Times, architect and public speaker Michael Pawlyn delves into how biomimicry can be applied to architecture in order to solve design problems and create ...

"It all started with a Beetle." This could be the beginning of a story about someone who went on to become a "car nut" engineer or somebody who went on to become an entomologist. In Rich Altherr's ...