Researchers have created a robot version of an extinct ancestor of the modern starfish. The goal was to figure out how this creature would have moved about its environment. Through collaboration ...

Brian Resnick was Vox’s science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox’s podcast about unanswered questions in science. And it all starts off with observations of the small and ...

(Nanowerk News) 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, ...