You probably already know that there is a master equation for all life processes based on metabolism. Now, physicists from Duke University have applied the so-called 'constructal theory' to explain ...

Scientists found parallels between the neural circuitry that guides locomotion in sea slugs and in more complex animals like mammals. Hundreds of millions of years before the evolution of animals with ...

An exhibition of photographs by pioneering early photographer, Eadweard Muybridge will open at Beetles + Huxley in July. The exhibition will showcase 65 collotypes prints made by the artist in 1887, ...

Humans and animals are the key inspiration for many robotic systems developed to date, as they possess body structures that ...

Muybridge and motion photography = Muybridge und die Bewegungsfotografie = Muybridge et la chronophotographie / Hans Christian Adam -- The Attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs ...

Is there a unifying principle underpinning animal locomotion in its rich diversity? A thermodynamic analysis performed by a Skoltech professor and his French collaborators at Université Paris Diderot, ...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Biologists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences studying crawling caterpillars have reported a unique "two-body" system of locomotion that has not previously ...

The motion capture technology that enables the fluid movements of your favorite video game character or lets a coach assess the biomechanics of an elite athlete is incredibly powerful, but requires ...

Hundreds of millions of years before the evolution of animals with segmented bodies, jointed skeletons or appendages, soft-bodied invertebrates like sea slugs ruled the seas. A new study finds ...