Wei had long been intrigued by robotics, Zhang recalls, and raised the idea of creating a robot himself. “That’s when I thought, Why not use the materials he works with to build one?” They started ...

John Stapp “The Fastest Man on Earth.” Stapp, his Air Force colleagues and other researchers in the field were experimenting ...

A flexible, semi-autonomous robot could potentially locate disaster victims trapped under rubble and deliver medication within the human body. A small, soft, and flexible robot capable of crawling ...

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many ...

A tiny soft robot powered by magnets may soon crawl through rubble or the body, blending flexible electronics with smooth motion.

"In principle, extraction is possible, and it could be a clean and efficient solution to the complex energy problems we will ...

A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...

For 12 years, scientists thought they knew how much extreme heat human bodies could cope with. New research shows how wrong ...

With much of the nickel used in electric vehicles sold in Australia coming from Indonesia, Spotlight reached out to Minister ...