Locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another, is an essential survival strategy for virtually every organism. Adapting to the unpredictable terrain they run into, cells, fungi and ...

Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists at the University of Amsterdam have constructed ‘odd’ objects that autonomously roll, crawl and wiggle ...

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James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

A treasure trove of objects that were supposed to have been left behind after the first moon landing have turned up in the closet of Neil Armstrong, the first man to step onto the lunar surface, the ...

I may not know everything about how the world works, but I know one thing for sure: humans will forever be finding weird little thingamabobs they can't identify and need help from others to figure it ...

Today is the 2015 edition of Ask a Curator day. According to coordinator Mar Dixon, 1,072 museums in 51 countries are participating. While those whose time zones have now gone into night have dropped ...

I don't know everything, but I do know one thing for sure: Humans are always finding weird little jobbies and doohickeys around that we can't quite identify. In the past, we'd have to just accept them ...

'Odd' objects that adapt and move without a brain (w/video) Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists have constructed 'odd' objects that ...