Everything we touch, taste, wear, drive, drink, and eat uses materials. PopTech’s Ecomaterials Innovation Lab offers 10 suggestions on how we can use as few materials in our daily lives as ...

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 ...

This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Haresh Lalvani on Biomimicry and Architecture That Designs Itself." It’s the holy grail for any biomimicry design futurist: ...

A new wave of sustainable design is prioritizing adaptive materials, local context, and integrated innovation over static perfection or isolated fixes. From hospitality interiors that evolve with use ...

In the never-ending hunt for new designs that jump, pump, or run faster and better, scientists are finding inspiration in nature. The field of biomimicry blurs boundaries between living things -- like ...

Designers and scientists are fusing biomimicry—the emulation of nature’s time-tested strategies—with artificial intelligence to create more sustainable, efficient, and innovative solutions. From ...

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 ...

A vascularized polymer inspired by the vein structure of a leaf. The vascular channels within the polymer can be used to introduce different types of compounds into the material, which can then ...

Nanotechnology and materials science have played crucial roles in scientific innovation over the past few decades. Nanotechnology involves studying particles and structures in the size range of 1-100 ...