Biomimicry
is a new science that studies nature’s models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf. [It] uses an ecological standard to judge the “rightness” of our innovations. After 3.8 billion years of evolution, nature has learned: What works. What is appropriate. What lasts. Biomimicry is a new way of viewing and valuing nature. It introduces an era based not on what we can extract from the natural world, but on what we can learn from it.

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I don’t think it is a new way of science, but one of the only ways to do science. Where else but in nature do people find their inspiration? Life has proven to be a great ‘problem solver’. Especially in my field, artificial intelligence’ a lot of applications are mimicked from nature, e.g. neural networks, genetic algorithms, …