Researchers used night vision and AI to watch spiders use millions of individual leg actions to blindly create intricate webs using only the sense of touch.

A new technique uses WiFi to count people in a seated crowd, even through walls. The secret is fidgeting.

A researcher who studies physical skills explains how getting your conscious thoughts out of the way lets your body do what it knows how to do, better.

Mantis shrimp start life as ferocious predators who know how to throw an ultra-fast lethal punch—even when they're smaller than a grain of rice.

The bellies of sidewinders are studded with tiny pits and have few, if any, of the tiny spikes found on the bellies of other snakes, research finds.

Jan. 11 marks the birthday of conservationist Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), who called for thinking about land as a living community to protect, not a resource to exploit.

The Trump administration is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing – a step that's as much about politics as it is about energy.

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