Children who use their bodies to shape letter sounds improve their spelling skills more than those who receive traditional classroom instruction, a study finds.

A "Softbotics" replica of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed 450 million years ago, could offer new insight into the evolution of locomotion.

An electric knifefish does a shimmy in the water for the same reason a dog sniffs or a human glances around a new place—to make sense of their surroundings.

Ants may appear to wander aimlessly, but some actually search for food and shelter in a more methodical way.

New study uncovers how a unique, fast synapse found in organs of the innermost ear keeps us from falling over.

Gelatinous sea creatures called Nanomia bijuga have two modes for getting around. Future underwater vehicles could mimic them.

Several people were able to operate a wheelchair that translated their thoughts into movement, without the use of an implant or stimulation.

Researchers examined the brain waves of children with and without autism to see how they process movement and body language.

Human brains constantly face ambiguous sensory inputs. To correctly perceive the world, our brains use a process known as causal inference.

Soft ribbon robots that look like translucent rotini use heat to get around mazes without any help from humans or computer software.