(PhysOrg.com) -- Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast ...

A jawfish (indicated by the red arrow) hides among the arms of a mimic octopus. Courtesy of Godehard Kopp “There are some cases in which many species mimic the same model,” Luiz Rocha, of the ...

Engineers in Japan say they are a step closer to developing technology they hope will cut the risk of car crashes -- by mimicking the behaviour of fish. The experts at Nissan Motor have been studying ...

Japanese car firm Nissan has developed robots that mimic the behaviour of fish, and could be used in crash avoidance systems. Japanese car firm Nissan has developed robots that mimic the behaviour of ...

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but for cleaner wrasse on the Great Barrier Reef it also means a drop in business. In a paper published today in Royal Society Biology Letters, ...

The mimic octopus is a stealthy swimmer (and a furious lover) but it’s not the only master of disguise in the ocean. While swimming off of the coast of Indonesia last July, diver Godehard Kopp noticed ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Bioinspired two-stage micro@nanomotors mimic suckerfish behavior for targeted cargo delivery and potential cancer theranostics in weakly acidic environments. (Nanowerk News) Organisms in nature have ...