Adopting biomimicry techniques in agriculture, ranchers and farmers are learning from nature's best and most adaptive problem ...

CHANNEL 5. BIOMIMICRY, IN SHORT, IS LEARNING FROM NATURE. IT’S NOT JUST THE SOLUTIONS. IT’S ALSO THE PROCESS. WHAT DID NATURE DO? BUT HOW DID NATURE DO IT? PETER LAWRENCE IS PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER ...

With Halloween behind us, we take off the costumes and go about the rest of the year as ourselves. For us, it is only a holiday, but for other living things, it’s a way of survival and life. Mimicry ...

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 ...

Aposematic signalling describes the use of conspicuous colours, patterns or sounds by prey to advertise the presence of toxins or other defences to potential predators. This system relies on predator ...

Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example is mimicry, where one species (the mimic) has evolved to resemble another ...

Nature has inspired humans in myriad ways from the beginning of time, but one of the relatively untapped applications of how nature can improve building structures comes in the form of architectural ...

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 ...

Innovation doesn’t always mean creating something entirely new. Some of the most remarkable breakthroughs come from observing what already exists in nature. From color-shifting chameleons to ...