A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot ...

Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a ...

I love me a bio-inspired robot that pulls off challenging feats by taking cues from the natural world. University of California, Berkeley (UCB) researchers have now shown off the one-legged Salto bot ...

The contracts of 140 term employees at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg were not renewed recently, while the federal government cut costs across departments, their union told the ...

Four senators at York University and a member of its academic planning and research committee are asking for a judicial ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton ...

Two months have passed since the Trump administration froze and proposed major cuts to NIH funding, and for Pitt researchers, ...

Quickly and accurately identifying which microbe is causing a patient’s disease is key to developing the proper treatment.

In the summer of 2020, researchers from the University of Manitoba set up a time-lapse camera overlooking the Churchill River ...

Salto the jumping robot can take a flying leap and land on a narrow pipe — just like a squirrel soaring from branch to branch.

A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting by 2025 Priestley Medal winner ...