Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

It’s well understood that spiders have poor eyesight and thus sense the vibrations in their webs whenever prey (like a fly) gets caught; the web serves as an extension of their sensory system. But ...

In a recent paper published by Professor Xin Li and Dr. Yanlong Guo from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the authors explore the profound paradigm shift in ...

China's Shenzhou-21 astronauts have steadily advanced scientific experiments in several fields aboard China's space station ...

See how an autonomous robot created a shock-absorbing shape no human ever could -- and what it means for designing safer helmets, packaging, car bumpers, and more. Inside a lab in Boston University's ...

Photo illustration shows a robot used in the study and examples of comments and responses it gave to test subjects during the experiment. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...