Three centuries of research, beginning with Hooke and Newton, have revealed a diversity of optical devices at the submicrometre scale in nature 1. These include one-dimensional multilayer reflectors, ...

Mother Nature knows a thing or two about design – so why not let her inspire your students with this biomimetics lesson plan? During this lesson on biomimetics and design, students will learn how to ...

Nature benefits from a progressive evolution over millions of years, always adapting and finding individual solutions for common problems. Hence, a pool of diverse and efficient solutions exists that ...

Engineers, chemists and others taking inspiration from biological systems for human applications must team up with biologists, writes Emilie Snell-Rood. In the late 1940s, Swiss engineer George de ...

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A bird strike refers to a collision between an aircraft and one or more birds during flight. Bird strikes impose significant financial costs on the aviation industry worldwide. The total annual cost ...

Biomimetics, the discipline devoted to the bio-inspired engineering of things and processes, could potentially hold the keys to solving Bitcoin’s scaling problem. Until now, biomimetics has mostly ...