A wind turbine designed to incorporate the bumps on a whale's tale. A fast-growing rice that needs half the normal amount of water to grow, thanks to observation of a hot-spring fungi. A video display ...

Many living organisms on Earth inhabit an environment that is, in one way or another, trying to work against it: scorching heat, freezing cold, scarce water, relentless predators. Over vast stretches ...

Lorain County Community College President Roy Church and Thomas Tyrrell, CEO of Great Lakes Biomimicry, announce a new technology center at the college. (LCCC/Steve Sefchik) ELYRIA, Ohio - Biomimicry, ...

A new DARPA-sponsored study says that biomimicry of butterfly wings can help researchers build complex photonic integrated circuits to improve communications technology. “By replicating the complex ...

Biomimicry is one of the hottest trends in design right now, spanning engineering disciplines and inspiring inventions that emulate nature, which has been solving design problems many years before ...

AMHERST, Ohio - Amherst's Marion L. Steele High School is believed to be the first public school in the state to offer students a course in biomimicry, the science of adapting the characteristics of ...

A ‘sharkskin’ coating is the latest nature-inspired innovation helping reduce aircraft fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, by reducing frictional resistance. By applying a total of 830 square meters ...

With a lot of help from Flipper, scientists have a better shot at understanding phenomena like black holes and supernovae. Bone-Rattling Sound: New Speakers That Are Made From Bone Bones have amazing ...

Designers and engineers have often looked to the environment and how Mother Nature has accomplished phenomenal design solutions for inspiration over the ages. Perhaps all that is new about this ...

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 ...