Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella ...

Yards that include mature trees and native plants are critical rest stops for the millions of birds that migrate through the ...

A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

When we think about creatures skimming across water, images of birds landing or frogs leaping come to mind. But some of ...

Abstract: Insects have excellent odor-searching capabilities using their movable antennae and arrays of odor-receptive cells to locate odor sources. In previous studies on odor-searching robots with ...

Insects rarely get credit for endurance, yet some of the smallest creatures on Earth pull off migrations that rival birds and mammals. These trips are tightly timed, biologically programmed movements ...

Movement is something we might take for granted in games. Characters are expected to move in certain ways, and controls are often similar across games (an A button to jump, clicking in a left stick to ...

MIT researchers are pushing robotics into the microscopic world, building insect-sized machines capable of navigating spaces larger robots can’t reach. Their goal is to create swarms that can monitor ...

Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the trend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...