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Mercury wreaks havoc in freshwater ecosystems, but monitoring the risk to wildlife can be challenging. Researchers have now shown how dragonfly larvae act as biosentinels for toxic mercury. When ...

Engineers have developed an electronics-free, entirely soft robot shaped like a dragonfly that can skim across the water and react to environmental conditions such as pH, temperature or the presence ...

Engineers at Duke University developed an entirely soft robot shaped like a dragonfly designed to skim across the water's surface and react to environmental conditions. The robot, called DraBot, is ...

Obesity and diabetes are not just problems of modern-day humans and their domesticated pets. Insects also are affected by these health conditions, and intestinal infections by protozoans are the cause ...

Fifty years after mankind stepped on the moon's surface for the first time, NASA has set its sights on a new, more distant moon — and a Purdue University graduate is leading the way to get there.

(Nanowerk News) Engineers at Duke University have developed an electronics-free, entirely soft robot shaped like a dragonfly that can skim across water and react to environmental conditions such as pH ...