Desert Beetle Inspired Young Biomimics’ 1st Place Design
Editors Note: We’re always pleased to hear stories about young biomimics. The Bay Area Biomimicry Network sent us this story about three young men who worked with the Network to refine their design for a student clean tech competition. Have a story to share? Let...Discover Biology on Coursera
For those looking to deepen their understanding of biology, Coursera is a great resource for free classes. Right now there are over 40 online courses listed under biology. Our top picks include Evolution for Educators, taught by the American Museum of Natural...Water for Refugees: BiomimicryTX Brings Student Design Challenge to SMU
Fourteen diverse student teams at Southern Methodist University recently took part in an immersive biomimicry design experience inspired by the Biomimicry Institute’s Student Design Challenge. SMU’s two-day design challenge was part of the third annual Engineering and...Red-tailed Hawk Nest Cam
If you like birds of prey, check out the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s web cam on a Red-tailed Hawk nest on campus. The hatchlings emerged just this week, so there’s a lot of activity with the parent birds (“Big Red” and “Ezra”)...Student Inventor Proposes Tree-Inspired Solar Array
The Secret of Trees | Albert Maysles from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo. Here’s an inspiring example of where biomimicry thinking can take young minds. Thirteen-year-old inventor, Aidan Dwyer, realized that trees follow a mathematical formula to gather sunlight...Biomimicry Fellow Awarded Fulbright Grant
Congratulations to our friend, Anamarija Frankic, a Biomimicry Fellow teaching at UMass Boston, who was recently awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant to help the University of Zadar in Croatia develop an academic program in coastal ecosystem management and...Structural Color: Physics meets Biology in the Morpho Butterfly
The morpho butterfly is a popular example of structural color – that is, how the properties of light can be manipulated to create colorful, iridescent surfaces without pigments or dyes. Nature employs this strategy often in insects and feathers. The video above,...The History of Earth as a 24-hour Day
Continuing on the theme of compressing large timescales into shorter, more comprehensible units, here’s a nice 2-minute animated video by AsapSCIENCE. It illustrates life’s evolution as if it happened in a single 24 hour day and does a great job of...University of Toronto Takes First Prize in Biomimicry Student Design Challenge
Civil engineering graduate students from the University of Toronto took first prize in Round 1 of this year’s Biomimicry Student Design Challenge. Their design, “Removal of Air Entrained in Water,” was inspired by fish gills, and could potentially...Share
