Nature's Tricks
Design and innovation inspired by the natural world. Emily Anthes investigates the scientists, architects and engineers taking cues from nature’s ingenuity to create a better blueprint for our world.
Latest stories
16 January 2013
The way a woodpecker is able to protect itself from long bouts of head banging influences the design of radical new head protection. Read more...
21 November 2012
A strange creature has a trick that could change the delivery of vaccines – and other medical supplies – forever. Read more...
8 November 2012
A killer plant with a cunning trick could one day be routinely used in a series of medical procedures, research shows. Read more...
25 October 2012
Materials that take their inspiration from how skin repairs itself could one-day be used to build self -healing planes or buildings. Read more...
11 October 2012
Scientists are on an ambitious quest to build an artificial organism that merges electronic parts with living cells. Read more...
