Tiny insect-inspired drones could navigate collapsed buildings to find survivors, showing lab-tested flight skills with ...

Tiny drones could one day crawl through collapsed buildings to help find survivors after earthquakes. These micro-robots, inspired by insects, now show flight skills close to the real thing. In lab ...

Meet a katydid that sounds like a bird and is as big as one too! It's even able to modulate its call to avoid attracting bats ...

A new self-assembly platform produces synthetic brochosomes at over 100,000 per second, enabling scalable antireflective, sensing and camouflage materials. (Nanowerk News) When most people see a ...

Winter is a busy time at bird feeders—here’s what ornithologists recommend to attract the widest variety of birds.

As China pursues a rethink of its housing policy, analysts warn that entrenched practices and misaligned incentives could ...

Experts recommend inspecting your vehicle and outdoor equipment before traveling long distances to avoid spreading these ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot—the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising ...

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