Janine Benyus helped bring the word biomimicry into 21st century vocabularies in her 1997 book on the subject. Her company, The Biomimicry Group, encourages biologists at the design table to ask: how ...

Biomimicry can be used to find solutions to problems like crop loss to insects or how to make a better medical needle for painless injections. Find out how. Science Trek is available to stream on ...

Windows that prevent bird collisions by mimicking the UV-reflective qualities of spider webs; a train that travels faster, uses less energy and makes less noise after it was redesigned to resemble a ...

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“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 ...

Biomedical engineers often turn to nature for inspiration, a method known as biomimicry. In her presentation at the recent BIOMEDigital conference, Donna Bibber shared a few examples of how biomimicry ...

Biomimicry, the practice of learning from and mimicking nature to solve human design challenges, became a recognized science in the late 20th century, but studying and imitating the natural world has ...

To solve its hose-wear problem, engineers at Parker Hannifin turned to snake scales for inspiration. Parker Hannifin had a problem. One of its customers -- an Italian cement maker -- was having some ...