Hair today, gone tomorrow Everyone knows geckos have extraordinary powers of adhesion, able to clamber up vertical windows with remarkable ease. With the “Geckskin”, a tea... Read more
Piranha Vs. Arapaima It’s a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner? The surpris... Read more
They noticed a definite improvement in performance – biomimicry Oh, those humpback whales and their weird fins. First, they inspired more efficient wind turbines. Next, their unique qu... Read more
MICHAEL PAWLYN is a British architect with an affinity for the natural world. So he is passionate about biomimicry—a discipline that looks at nature’s best ideas to inspire solutions... Read more
Since the dawn of time, nature has been working hard, engineering everyone and everything to the highest standards on Earth. Dragonflies that can propel themselves in any direction, sharks w... Read more