A self-propelled robotic swimmer gives researchers a chance to see how bacteria and other microorganisms move at a much larger scale.

A new device holds the record for tallest jump at 100 feet up. Engineers took a new approach to give it extra jumping prowess.

A new device owes its height-jumping prowess to the size of its spring relative to its motor: it's nearly 100 times greater than that found in animals.

Tiny vinegar eels do "the wave" in a bead of water. "This wavelike collective motion has not been seen before in any other organisms this large."

"For every action the animal was performing in the cage, we were able to understand what calculations the neurons were doing in that brain."

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.

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.

A new robot called Solo 8 is open-source and inexpensive, but it can pull off a lot of the tricks of costlier robots.