Fighter plane tails were dramatically reshaped after the advent of “fly-by-wire” controls, rendering the aircraft’s stability ...

In this video, Richard Blob and Daniel Goldman explain the motivations for and results of the study by Benjamin McInroe et al., published in the July 8, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The ...

A scientist chanced upon the specimen at a market in Myanmar. — -- A dinosaur tail preserved in amber has been discovered for the first time ever, researchers announced on Thursday in a paper ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, ...

File shows a robot that uses the kind of motion seen in the mudskipper to move across a granular surface. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 8, 2016 issue of Science, published ...