Motors and gear trains with micrometer dimensions and powered by light are fabricated using semiconductor lithography and ...

Engineers have turned one of nature’s most reviled body parts into a precision tool, using the hollow feeding tubes of dead ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Indoor air contains countless microscopic particles, including bacteria and viruses that can affect human health. A new study from the Jiangsu Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides the ...

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, have for the first time succeeded in using ...

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A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first ...

Archaeologists discovered a 2,300-year-old trepanation tool—used to remove a section of bone from the skull—at an ancient commune in modern-day Poland. The ancient site was once inhabited by a group ...

While researchers are divided on the conclusion, the behavior shows wolves may be smarter than we thought. This still image of a wolf at night comes from a camera trap, which was part of an experiment ...

We now know that a wide variety of animals use tools, and some clever surprises are among them. 1 Examples involving invertebrates, reptiles, fish, birds, and mammals show different levels of ...