Soft Robot Moves by Mimicking Plants
A tough but flexible bot unfurls like a plant using a pressurized plastic tube to inch through rugged environments.
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Damaged Bears Find Solace in Rehab
Watch how Carpathian brown bears, scarred by the practice of training bears to dance for entertainment, are being given the chance to live out their lives in an environment tailored to creature comfort...
Watch a Wolf Pup Vet Visit
These eight-week-old Mexican gray wolf puppies got a clean bill of health at their first vet checkup this week.
A Close-Up of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
New photos were just released from Juno’s most recent flyover of the enormous storm raging on Jupiter.
Giant Model Mimics Damaged Dam Spillway
When the Oroville Dam spillway cracked and failed after a wet California winter, a team of scientists created a one fiftieth–scale model of the damaged concrete and eroded hillside to help guide the reconstruction...
Why Do Allergies Make You Sneeze?
Do you suffer from allergies? Follow the dendritic cell and the entire Scientific American Allergy Orchestra to discover how allergens from pollen to pet dander can change the body's tune...
How to Weigh a Star Using Gravitational Lensing
Astronomers recently tapped Einstein's concept of gravitational lensing to determine the weight of a distant star. Watch and learn how this concept came to be and how it works.
Searching for Life at the Bottom of the Arctic
Creatures living among the hydrothermal vents burbling under the Arctic Ocean's ice layer have been historically difficult to study, but an underwater vehicle, the Nereid Under Ice, can get close to the vents to peek in at the animals and their homes without disturbing their environment with icebreaking ships...
Wing Windows Reveal Insect Origami
Ladybird beetle wings fold themselves into a tidy package after flight, and now scientists understand how it works.
Watch This Parrotlet Nail a Long Jump
This palm-size parrot uses a touch of wing to leap from branch to branch so it can save energy as it looks for dinner or a mate.
Tackling China's Devastating Yellow River Floods
After learning how the waterway transports a billion tons of sediment into the sea each year, scientists built a tool that may help predict the inundations that impact some 80 million people...
400 Fish Released into the Revitalized Bronx River
The release of 400 alewife herring marks a significant milestone in a broader river cleanup effort.
Slime Houses of Pinky-Size Plankton Cycle Carbon
See how a giant Larvacean’s intricate mucus house, constructed for filter feeding, contributes to oceanic carbon cycling.
Broken Bones Hint at Earlier Human Arrival in the Americas
Mastodon bones and shattered stones suggest humans were migrating to the Americas some 100,000 years earlier than currently thought. Nature Video explores this controversial find. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on April 26, 2017...
Scientists and Science Supporters Marched--Now What?
Thousands congregated in the nation's capital and other cities in the U.S. and around the world to support scientific research and protest Trump administration–proposed budget cuts...
Interstellar Projectiles Zoom around Us at Blistering Speeds
Hypervelocity stars, and the black holes that launch them, whip through space at millions of miles per hour.
Printing Glass
A new technique lets 3D printers create objects made of glass, which has optical and material advantages over traditional polymer. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on April 19, 2017...
Watch a Badger Bury a Cow
This badger built itself a “refrigerator” in the desert to stash its food windfall.
How Honeybees Brush Their Eye Hairs
Flitting among the flowers can be messy, sticky work.
Double Vortices Give Mosquitoes a Boost
Our understanding of how insects fly didn’t explain how mosquitoes managed to stay on the wing. It took eight slow-motion cameras to help researchers reveal how mosquito wing beats shape the air to give the insect extra lift...
