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 ...

Our biomimicry challenge What Would You Ask Nature? drew dozens of real-world business problems submitted by companies from all over the world. We assigned three challenges to three firms and paired ...

The annual competition from the Biomimicry Insititute is spreading its wings: The Biomimicry Global Design Challenge (BGDC) is expanding to include the Living Product Prize. Entrants vying for the ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When nature has a problem, evolution weeds out what doesn’t work and selects the most effective adaptations. Humans ...

“We always learn about nature, but we are rarely taught to learn from nature.” – Jess Berliner Biomimicry encompasses so many different fields of design, manufacture and communication, that it can’t ...

In this edition, we tell you how startups are trying to find new ways of harnessing the power of the wind and waves. Some are even using biomimicry, or how to emulate nature's patterns and strategies.