These Mouse-Inspired “Whiskers” Give Cyclists A Temporary Bike Lane

Inspired by cats and mice, students competing in a biomimicry design challenge found a unique way to signal that a cyclist needs some space on the road.

Meet The Amazing, Hopping Bionic Kangaroo

This Amazing High-Rise Apartment Building Looks Like A Giant Tree

With balconies budding like leaves, no one could complain for lack of outdoor space in this building in France.

How Growing Buildings Underwater Could Fight Climate Change

The Biorock Pavilion, a small theater to be built from carbon-rich material manufactured by microorganisms, is trying to push biomimicry to the absolute limits.

Closing Up Heart Defects With Glues Inspired By Slugs And Worms

How Reverse Engineering Nature Can Spur Design Innovation

It’s not enough to copy nature. Today’s designers need a deeper understanding of environmental nuance, from the biome in.

One Day We’ll Fix Everything With Glues Copied From Mussels, Oysters, And Barnacles

A researcher has figured out a way to take the power of natural glues and make non-toxic and incredibly strong synthetic adhesives. It could help do everything from securing broken bones to manufacturing cars.

Kill It With Fire! A Giant Robot Spider Moves Like The Real Thing

More than two dozen motors attached to the legs and abdomen make this robotic spider terrifyingly life-like. Two brothers in Hong Kong “wanted to see how far [they] could take it.”

How Buildings That Imitate Earth’s Creatures Could Save Us From Ourselves

Sustainable design needs a gut check. When it comes to designing for efficiency, balance, and resiliency, nothing beats emulating Earth’s creatures.

DARPA’s Amazing New Cyberarms

New video cleared by DARPA shows robotic arms agile enough to pick up keys and playing cards.

4 Bizarre Design Solutions Inspired By Nature

From using bee-wing-inspired cooling to preserve food to spider-web tech to conserve water, these projects are the best student-designed biomimcry projects in the world.

Creating Resilence By Following Nature’s Lead

The natural world has found ways to work and live in harmony for a long time. If we want to also survive and create sustainability systems, biomimicry may be the key.

Biomimicry Creates New Education Models For Learning From Nature

We can learn a lot from nature, but first we have to learn how to do that. A whole host of programs–from grade school to graduate school–are now teaching the art of biomimicry.

Want Water Solutions? Nature Has Already Figured Them Out

The planet has been managing water for 3.8 billion years. We’ve just recently found ways to mess it up. In a quest to be better with our liquid resources, looking to how the natural world treats water would be a good place to start.

These Robotic Sea Turtles May Soon Guard The Oceans

The robotic reptile is the latest in a menagerie of mechanical creatures designed to use the best of animal design to help people (without having to spend months house training).

Portland, Seattle Duke It Out For World’s Most Nature-Inspired Building

The Living Building Standard–which requires buildings to create all their own energy and recycle all their own water–is so hard to meet that only three buildings are “living buildings.” Two, in the Pacific Northwest, are vying for the title of world’s most sustainable.

Dolphin Whistles Help Solve The Mysteries Of The Cosmos

With a lot of help from Flipper, scientists have a better shot at understanding phenomena like black holes and supernovae.

How The “Internet Of Things” Is Turning Cities Into Living Organisms

When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water systems that automatically know when it will rain and react accordingly.

The Heliotrope House Automatically Follows The Sun Like A Plant

The sun is the greatest source of energy on the planet. Instead of spending money trying to fight its power in the summer (and supplement it in the winter), revolving homes maximize solar heat and electricity.