Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil—from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant trunks that can pick up a peanut but also take down a tree.

This March, rangers on patrol in the Maya Forest came across the feathers of hunted birds and paths that had been cleared ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) are using ultrasound sensors and a type of artificial intelligence (AI) ...