Today, all mammals from humans to bats have five fingers or fewer. Yes, even whales, whose finger bones are hidden in their fins. Birds have four or fewer and amphibians get the best of both worlds, often having four digits on their...

Fat cells don't often receive praise in everyday life, but they probably deserve more credit, as they might be healing our wounds.

Roboticist Auke Ijspeert designs biorobots, machines modeled after real animals that are capable of handling complex terrain and would appear at home in the pages of a sci-fi novel. The process of creating these robots leads to better...

The creation of tiny robots could enable the exploration of new frontiers, from the tightest spaces in the human body to the most remote ecosystems. Here are 5 little bots that draw inspiration from nature to get the job done.

A spinal cord injury can sever the communication between your brain and your body, leading to paralysis. Fresh from his lab, Grégoire Courtine shows a new method -- combining drugs, electrical stimulation and a robot -- that could...

Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things.

Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate.

By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they add rockets. See their jaw-dropping developments in...

Continuing our study of the echinoderms, let's take a look at their body systems, especially the water vascular system and endoskeleton. What else can we say about their general anatomy and physiology? How do sea stars and sea urchins...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed Robo Snail, a robotic counterpart inspired by the movement of real snails. By mimicking the snail's unique locomotion, which involves gliding on a thin film of mucus...

With gastropods covered, let's move to our next class within phylum Mollusca, the bivalves. These include clams, oysters, mussels, scallops, and shipworms. What are these organisms all about? What can we say about bivalve aquaculture?...

These new PE locomotion activites will give your some great ideas to help develop your students gross motor movement skills such as jumping, leaping, hopping, dodging & sprinting, with overall body control needed for many sport skills

What is DARPA? How are robots and a one year old child similar and different? What will robots be like in the future?<br/>
Robotics Challenges for the Future, Part 1

Beginning in the late nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, geologists, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists have given the world evidence of the physical and cultural development of humans. This video looks at how...

In this week’s episode we discover a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur and how airline boarding procedures might be making you sick; we explore a compact mass spectrometer for use in the field; and finally, we learn how vertebrate...

This video explores the fascinating world of snakes, highlighting their diverse habitats, hunting strategies, and unique locomotion techniques. With over 3400 species spread across the globe, snakes are iconic predators that have...

This episode will take students through what insects eat and the different eating habits of different types of insects

This video will take students through how insects move their limbs in different ways to humans.

In this week’s episode we discover a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur and how airline boarding procedures might be making you sick; we explore a compact mass spectrometer for use in the field; and finally, we learn how vertebrate...