If you eat at outdoor restaurants, you may have noticed opportunistic birds waiting for a chance to steal your chips. Turns out, that behavior might be a key to helping endangered species survive in ...

Cells in our bodies squeeze through dense tissue channels, thread past neighboring cells and navigate every nook and cranny within the extracellular matrix—the mesh-like network that surrounds and ...

In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, biomedical engineers have shown how two brain regions quickly adapt to shift focus from one planned destination to another. Stephanie Prince ...

Atlas is continuing to evolve. In a fairly long video with infrequent explanations, Boston Dynamics demonstrates how Atlas now copes with changing environments. While it's still the usual sorting of ...

Aquatic plants are specialized evolutionary groups adapted to life in water. They play critical roles as food and medicinal supplies (e.g., lotus root and foxnut) and industrial raw materials (e.g., ...

How can plants adapt to their environment, and how will they be able to adapt to climate change? Those are among the biggest questions Johanna Schmitt has sought to answer during her career as a plant ...