Science & Medicine
Flying snakes and the science of jellyfish
Nov. 27, 2010
How do you make a light, low-density material without compromising its strength?
Feb. 4, 2014
It doesn’t pay to underestimate a jellyfish.
Nov. 25, 2013
In a fish-eat-fish ocean filled with sharks and other fierce swimmers, how has the delicate jellyfish survived – and thrived – through hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary culling?
Oct. 7, 2013
Alone, an ant’s wandering search for food may not seem particularly shrewd.
May 28, 2014
Video: A flying robotic jellyfish? Prototype proves it’s possible
Could future spaceships be built with artificial ‘bone’?
If a future Mars rover plans to climb up something steep, it might have to look something like a sidewinder snake.
Oct. 16, 2014
Our bones are remarkable feats of engineering; strong and yet light, shot through with holes and yet able to bear incredible loads.
March 24, 2014
Scientists build man-made ‘living-materials’ inside bacterial cells