Robots with toes? Experiments suggest that climbing robots could benefit from having flexible, hairy toes, like those of geckos, that can adjust quickly to accommodate shifting weight and slippery surfaces.

Most everyone knows that humid heat is harder to handle than the “dry” kind. 

Inspired by the biomechanics of cheetahs, researchers have developed a new type of soft robot that is capable of moving more quickly on solid surfaces or in the water than previous generations of soft robots. 

Chronic rejection of transplanted organs is the leading cause of transplant failure, and one that the field of organ transplantation has not overcome in almost six decades since the advent of immunosuppressive drugs enabled the field to flourish. 

A rich variety of meteorological phenomena take place in the extensive hydrogen atmosphere of the planet Saturn, a world about ten times the size of the Earth. 

A woman walking down the street hears a bang. 

The Monte Conca cave system on the island of Sicily is a vast system of springs and pools, sitting below a nature preserve.

University of Delaware data scientist Jing Gao is fascinated by the ways that cities and towns grow over time. 

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the ground-based Gemini Observatory in Hawaii have teamed up with the Juno spacecraft to probe the mightiest storms in the solar system, taking place more than 500 million miles away on the giant planet Jupiter.

Over the past quarter-century, changes in Antarctic sea-ice cover have had profound impacts on life on the ocean floor.