Fancy footwork! These huddling penguins do the wave to stay warm
If you’re in stop-and-go traffic in Los Angeles, you’re probably pretty unhappy about it. If you’re a male penguin balancing an egg on your feet in the freezing Antarctic, that traffic jam is probably...
View ArticleWhy do birds fly in a V? Endangered ibis reveals its amazing secret
Birds discovered V-formation flight long before fighter pilots did, but the exact reasons why they make these distinctive shapes in the sky has remained a mystery. Now scientists working with a...
View ArticleWatch! Termite robots build structures with amazingly simple rules
Imagine a team of workers that can tirelessly build and rebuild complicated structures even under daunting and dangerous conditions. They already exist – they’re called termites. Now, inspired by these...
View ArticleRafting ants use babies as floating life-preservers during floods
When facing oncoming floodwaters, ants use their helpless babies as floating life-preservers – by sticking them at the very bottom of the life rafts that they build with their own bodies.
View ArticleMagnetoSperm: A tiny swimming robot inspired by human sperm
Meet MagnetoSperm! No, it's not a precursor to a movie called 'X-Men: The Next Generation'– it's a tiny, swimming robot inspired by sperm cells.
View ArticleKilobots, robot swarm star
Swarm robots, or "kilobots," make the first 1,000-strong self-assembled shapes, according to researchers at Harvard University.
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