Nature doesn’t just surprise us; it prototypes ideas we’d swear came from a movie. Some animal skills look like planned ...

Most of the time, a thresher shark's tail is gently swishing side to side to move through the water, but it's capable of a drastically different maneuver when it's time to feed. Known as ...

This video uncovers the extraordinary abilities that make the mantis shrimp one of the most powerful animals in the ocean. Viewers see how its lightning-fast strike generates forces strong enough to ...

Abstract: Cavitation is a phase change phenomenon generated by the static pressure reduction of a liquid medium at a constant temperature. This process has been considered as a disadvantageous ...

A team of scientists from China and the U.S. is pioneering the development of bubble-powered robots, which could one day replace needles for painless drug delivery into the body. Inspired by nature, ...

A joint US-Chinese research team has developed a new technique that uses bubble-popping as a potential propulsion system for microbots. The discovery could potentially lead to the replacement of ...

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Researchers have discovered that cavitation, the rapid formation of vapor bubbles in a fluid, plays a critical role in enhancing the energy conversion efficiency of microscale fuel jets used in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. At first glance, the mantis shrimp is an unassuming ...

(A) The ultra-intense X-ray beams delivered by the unique superconducting helical undulator. (B) Ultrafast multi-pulse X-ray images. (C) Analysis of a region of interest. (D) A high-resolution ...