Fruity energy, spidery lenses: Nature-inspired solutions in 2020

The durian fruit may be about to add a new unexpected reason for its fame – helping to charge mobile phones and electric cars. — AFP

Climate change and biodiversity loss are laying bare our dependence on the natural world for everything from the food we eat to the air we breathe.

But nature also holds the solution to other problems, inspiring scientific discovery in a host of unexpected ways.