Nature Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic

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Mother Nature’s Pandemic Fighting Advice   Dear Reader,   How might coral skeletons, dragonfly wings and cat tongues help us to weather future pandemics? In a new video, experts tell Scientific American about the good news—and hope—to be found for our own future in nature itself. Nature is, after all, a complex system that has survived for billions of years through enumerable shocks, disruptions and disasters.   The idea that we should observe nature when designing our modern world has ancient roots in Indigenous cultures. But the common scientific term for this approach is only a couple of decades old: “biomimicry.”   <p br="" style="Margin:0;font-family: 'Benton-Regular', sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;text-align:center;color:#1a1a1a;" "="">Support Our Mission. Become a Subscriber.

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