In honor of the Portland area's recent heat wave, we'll look at a hot-climate house that mimics a snail for coolness, and the field of biomimicry; at research on the cocoon as a way to improve home ...

With many using this time at home to learn new skills, online courses are rising in popularity and one South African organisation has launched a timely programme to embark on, whilst considering what ...

Source: Greystone Books, with permission. Some years ago I learned about the fascinating field called biomimicry, basically "a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to ...

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 ...

Students design, fabricate, and test a biomimicry-inspired fishing lure to help reduce the impact of invasive Smallmouth Bass in Hawaiian freshwater streams. Through field-based data collection, CAD ...

Serial entrepreneur Tom Tyrrell has started a dozen companies in industries as diverse as steel and technology. He even founded Business Volunteers Unlmited, an organization that links businesses with ...

HOK and the Biomimicry Guild have forged a first-of-its-kind alliance linking the natural and built environment. This exclusive relationship between one of the world’s largest architectural design ...

As philosopher-mathematician Jeff Goldblum once said, “life, uh, finds a way.” To phrase that more scientifically, evolution has had billions of years of trial ...