What do a cat’s prickly tongue, a pine cone and fungus all have in common? On the surface, not much. But dig deeper, and each is inspiring a facet of the beauty industry. That’s because cosmetics- and ...

It often pays to borrow a page from nature's playbook. Just look at the UC Berkeley scientists who recently made headlines with their cockroach-inspired robot. "Often nature's most revolting animals ...

A group of engineers believes people can build better sonar systems by borrowing features from one of mother nature's masters: the bat. Rolf Müller, a mechanical engineer at Virginia Tech, has been ...

Researchers have developed a range of synthetic biomimetic compounds to replace the relatively expensive natural NADH and NADPH coenzymes in enzymatic conversions of industrial relevance. They show ...

Michelle Oyen receives funding from the United States Army Corps of Engineers on tough biomimetic materials. As the world grapples with climate change, we urgently need to find ways of reducing our ...

Biomimetics is the process of taking ideas from nature and using them in engineering design. It uses mimicry of nature and wildlife's adaptations to the different environments and conditions to create ...

Robotics engineers found a way to help robots navigate through very tight spaces by attaching a shell that mimics the shape of one of nature's most resilient but most reviled creatures: the cockroach.

The report runs an in-depth analysis of market trends, key players, and future opportunities. In general, the Medical Biomimetics Market growth of 7.6% comprises a vast array of, Type, Application, ...

In order to design a 21st-century, impact-resistant substance, materials scientist Mehmet Sarikaya of the University of Washington in Seattle finds inspiration in a 500-million-year-old feat of ...