Trap-jaw ants carry a secret weapon so powerful it can fling their own bodies clear of danger, and the mechanics behind it ...

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Among the most extreme movements ever documented in the animal kingdom belongs to a small crustacean that patrols tropical ...

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An exercise you can keep doing for life, swimming softens the arteries, sends blood to the brain and doesn’t wreck your knees ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of North Queensland that spins an ingenious and powerful spring-actuated snare to catch a single ...

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Human sperm cells may swim by exploiting unusual “odd elasticity” within their flagella, helping them move through highly resistant fluids. Credit: Shutterstock Sperm cells move through fluids that ...

Running is a spring-loaded sport—and no, I’m not just referring to the springy, carbon-plated super shoes that have swept the running world in recent years. Muscles and tendons themselves act like ...

Every now and then an athlete comes along who makes people wonder, “how are they so fast?” Let me introduce you to Gout Gout. Gout is a 17-year-old sprint sensation from Australia, whose blistering ...

Brown researchers set up a belly flop-like water experiment using a blunt cylinder, adding an important vibrating twist to it that ultimately led them to counterintuitive findings. Credit: John ...

Over the past two decades, structural biology has provided much insight into the shape of membrane proteins. Beyond shape, however, membrane protein function can also depend on the protein’s elastic ...