Subjects: General

DARPA is sponsoring a contest to develop the software that will allow a robot dog to autonomously navigate rough terrain.

How studying bees will help to build better helicopters.

Biologist Deby Cassill has discovered that some fire ants rush headlong into battle, while others will play dead to avoid fighting.

Engineers at the University of Michigan have built the first fully autonomous aircraft that can launch from and land on the ocean surface.

Astronauts need to exercise while in space but zero gravity presents a challenge for traditional exercise equipment.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina are creating virtual jellyfish to study the fluid dynamics involved in their movement.

This uniquely designed sailing boat can travel at three times the speed of the wind.

Physicist Jearl Walker explains why dropped toast always lands jelly side down

This Spanish manufacturer builds every component of their balloons in their own factory, including the baskets.

Reynolds Marion spent 30 years building a craft that floats like a boat and dives like a submarine to win a $20 bet with his sister.