Students at the University of Maryland trained a tiny drone to fly safely through tight spaces by mimicking the visual ...

In North America alone, honeybees’ role in pollination enables the production of at least 90 commercially grown crops, including apples, blueberries, melons and broccoli. One student wanted more ...

The University of Maryland’s RoboScout team is participating in the second year of a three-year Defense Advanced Research ...

I admit: if I see a beehive, I back away—fresh honey be damned. But part of me is also fascinated. Beehives are a remarkable feat of engineering. Made of materials from tree buds to chewed-up wax, ...

When a tall building needs to be renovated or repaired, cranes and scaffolding are the typical solution — but one group of researchers wonders whether this problem couldn’t be solved in a more ...

Painted on a wall inside the National Design Centre in Singapore last week, during the city’s Design Week, was the quote: “Singapore is a nation by design. Nothing we have today is natural, or ...

The world's first multirobot system that integrates a humanoid robot with a transforming drone that can launch off the ...

Last week, I discussed a movement now afoot -- one that my wife, Gena, and I support -- calling for the ban of certain agricultural insecticides known as neonicotinoids that scientific review has ...