An exhibition at the Museum of Design Atlanta, co-organized by the Biomimicry Institute, ... The shinkansen, known in English as the bullet train, passes through the station in Hamamatsu on ...

Nature is efficient, resource-conscious, and self-sustaining. The designs and processes developed have been tested over millions of years and proven in diverse environments. For e ...

When Japanese engineer Eiji Nakatsu was designing the new 500-series Shinkansen bullet train in the 1990s, he was looking for ways to reduce the explosive boom made by the train when it rocketed ...

In one famous example, engineers in Japan modeled the front of their high-speed bullet train after the shape of a kingfisher's beak to make the design more streamlined and eliminate the sonic boom.