With many using this time at home to learn new skills, online courses are rising in popularity and one South African organisation has launched a timely programme to embark on, whilst considering what ...

In honor of the Portland area's recent heat wave, we'll look at a hot-climate house that mimics a snail for coolness, and the field of biomimicry; at research on the cocoon as a way to improve home ...

Source: Greystone Books, with permission. Some years ago I learned about the fascinating field called biomimicry, basically "a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to ...

Students learn about biomimicry and different inventions that were inspired by nature. In this lesson, students find out what biomimicry is and learn about different inventions that were inspired by ...

Biomimicry, a term originating from the word roots bios (life), and mimesis (to imitate), describes the imitation of systems and processes in nature that inspire solutions to human problems.

Students explore invasive species and ecosystem challenges in Hawaiʻi by using Hawaiian language as the primary lens for learning. Through Hawaiian vocabulary, cultural knowledge, and engineering ...

We live in the Anthropocene, a time that privileges the human experience above all else. The planet is continually harmed and exploited, making people seemingly oblivious to the human interactions ...

Lesson Overview: Students explore invasive species and ecosystem challenges in Hawaiʻi by using Hawaiian language as the primary lens for ... Lesson Overview: Students design, fabricate, and test a ...

As philosopher-mathematician Jeff Goldblum once said, “life, uh, finds a way.” To phrase that more scientifically, evolution has had billions of years of trial ...