The international conference 'Social Biomimicry: Insect Societies and Human Design', hosted by Arizona State University, USA, 18-20 February 2010, explored how the collective behaviour and nest architecture of social insects can inspire innovative and effective solutions to human design challenges. It brought together biologists, designers, engineers, computer scientists, architects and busines...

Microscale engineering technologies provide unprecedented opportunities to create cell culture microenvironments that go beyond current three-dimensional in vitro models by recapitulating the critical tissue-tissue interfaces, spatiotemporal chemical gradients, and dynamic mechanical microenvironments of living organs. Here we review recent advances in this field made over the past two years th...

This paper introduces the Outlook on Agriculture Special Issue biomimicry and nature-based solutions. It provides a selective overview that will help frame situate collection, with particular focus agriculture food production. The relationship between nature is central concern, particularly how this framed by those promoting idea to overcome multiple challenges it faces, must (re)turn nature. s...

Biomimicry inspired architects to solve complex design problems and develop adaptive solutions for enhancing the environmental quality. Fields of inspiration include energy efficiency, natural ventilation, daylighting, structural stability. In this paper, 144 biomimicry-inspired building skin alternatives have been developed improve daylighting performance in office buildings Assiut City, Egypt...