Botanist and designer Macoto Murayama has created “Inorganic Flora,” a collection of intricate blueprints of numerous flowers. Murayama buys different flowers from...

You probably didn't know mushrooms could be used to construct buildings and cure diseases. Mushrooms are being tested in innovative and imaginative ways to help society. Engineers, medical researchers, and designers are utilizing the natural abilities of various fungi for antibiotics, building materials, water filtrati...

The most important living organisms that play the key functions in the biosphere might not seem exciting when it comes to motion. Plants, fungi, sponges, corals, plankton, and microorganisms make life on Earth possible and do all the hard biochemical job. Similarly to all living things, they are dynamic, mobile, and fu...

Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov has devised a clever way to bring the wonder of macro photography to the minuscule world of snowflakes. Using a homemade rig...

Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) is a book of lithographic and autotype prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel. Originally published in sets of ten between 1899 and...

Towering woven structures, hanging pods and large-scale constellations of shapes, Spencer Byles creates theatrical or even supernatural realms within the picturesque...

Completed in 1997 after a number of years under construction, the installation consists of a fractal spiral of conical protrusions and alternately conical dunes. From the ground...