The collective intelligence found in nature is a wonder of efficiency and coordination. Birds flock to forage. Fish school as ...

Seán Duke is the Science and Health Editor for Newsweek, based in Dublin, Ireland. He has 25 years of experience as a science journalist, and editor with The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, RTÉ, ...

Every once in a while a book comes along that feels less like reading and more like having your creative brain blown wide ...

With feet and legs like a peregrine falcon, engineers have created a robot that can perch and carry objects like a bird. Like snowflakes, no two branches are alike. They can differ in size, shape, and ...

While “zombie duck drones” might sound like a weird plot twist in some dystopian horror movie, these robotic critters were engineered to further wildlife research. They also look like a mashup of ...

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Why settle for a regular robot when you can have a robot coyote? That's the innovative question the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is answering as it rolls out robot coyotes ...

Decorative film is saving birds' lives — at least that's a lesson to take away from a $1.2 million project at Chicago's McCormick Place. In 2023, the convention center was the site of 2,000 bird ...