CLEVELAND — While cleaning out the guest room closet, I stumbled on my plastic bin of craft supplies. Having a kindergartener, I’ve amassed a strange collection of barely used feathers, pom poms, ...

Researchers in Stuttgart, Germany, have been working on small-scale robots for some time now, and the latest iteration of their efforts is quite impressive; and also quite wiggly. They made tiny ...

Researchers wanted to understand precisely how blackworms execute tangling and ultrafast untangling movements for a myriad of biological functions. They researched the topology of the tangles. Their ...

CORVALLIS — Although compost worm bins and their “red wiggly” worms are known for their ability to turn worm castings into rich compost, in the process they also recycle food waste otherwise destined ...

For millennia, humans have used knots for all kinds of reasons — to tie rope, braid hair, or weave fabrics. But there are organisms that are better at tying knots and far superior — and faster — at ...