Researchers from IMDEA Materials Institute have demonstrated improved and more affordable catalytic materials used to produce ...

Federal emergency planners treat the Cascadia Subduction Zone as one of the clearest natural-disaster threats in North ...

This rainforest tree solved one of evolution’s hardest problems. Here’s how it evolved to use tension and geometry to fire ...

A new shape shifting material can twist, bend, and snap into more than a dozen 3D forms without motors or wires, a ...

Kangaroos fix their posture in a unique way to save energy while hopping at high speed, reveals new research. Scientists have taken a leap in understanding of the biomechanics of the iconic Australian ...

Researchers have taken a leap in understanding how kangaroos can increase their hopping speeds without incurring an associated energetic cost. Their study, published in eLife, shows that changes in ...

This valuable biomechanical analysis of kangaroo kinematics and kinetics across a range of hopping speeds and masses is a step towards understanding a long-standing problem in locomotion biomechanics: ...

Researchers have created a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can snap into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes by compressing or twisting the original structure. This rapid shape-shifting ...

Abstract: The miniaturization of precision instruments directly leads to a reduction in the mass of the mover in stick-slip actuators. As the mover mass decreases, inertia is reduced, making it ...

A new kind of shape-shifting material can twist, bend, and snap into more than a dozen three-dimensional forms—no motors or wires required. Using stored elastic energy, it transforms itself much like ...

Running is a spring-loaded sport—and no, I’m not just referring to the springy, carbon-plated super shoes that have swept the running world in recent years. Muscles and tendons themselves act like ...