Tag: Biomimicry

How Termites and Ants Built the Tropics’ Best Soil

This is like discovering that the pyramids weren’t built by natural erosion, but by ancient engineers

Catfish slime the next antibiotic?

Catfish slime may help you overcome the next infection

Can anti-freeze materials found in nature make stronger ice?

New research shows that some antifreeze proteins can do both Antifreeze is life’s means of surviving in cold winters: Natural...

Bamboo Warka Water towers pull drinking water out of thin air

Italian architect Arturo Vittori and his colleague Andreas Vogler designed a low-tech machine, based on passive design, that can produce between...

Glowing highways make it look like we’re driving through eco-fairytales

Glow-in-the-dark roads recently debuted on a 500 meter stretch of Netherlands highway!  Brought to you by the guy behind glow-in-the-dark...

Safely swap your streetlight for a glowing tree?

Could the built environment take cues from Mother Nature? When Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde puzzled this, a light popped on...

The best reason for growing rhubarb that we’ve ever heard

While we contemplate whether GMO engineers can free our world from its glaring lack of light emitting houseplants and...

Tangram 2022 World Cup Stadium Cools Itself Like a Lizard

Tangram Gulf recently unveiled a naturally-cooled FIFA stadium design for the 2022 World Cup in Doha, Qatar. Speaking at...

Enter the Biomimicry Design Competition for a Shot at $5,000

This is the fourth time that the Biomimicry 3.8 institute is staging their international design competition and this year...

BioThink: Iranian Hybrid Vehicle Powered by Magnets and Sun

A hybrid energy source comprised of solar energy and magnets fuel this futuristic car. Fuel-guzzling, monochromatic sedans will be a...

A Desert Shrub That Outwits Mice

While humans inch closer to their eventual demise by burning up the resources upon which they so richly depend,...

Eco travels to Oman, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia and Israel

Trying to choose an eco adventure in the Middle East? These countries: Oman, Israel, Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco are your best bet.