Evolution

Shanghai robotics startup DroidUp has launched what it calls "a beautifully designed and expressive bionic robot" that is touted as "the world's first highly bionic robot that deeply integrates human aesthetics and advanced humanoid movement."

In the third BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition, a stunning snap of the invasive orange pore fungus (Favolaschia calocera) has not just encroached on native species’ territory but taken out the top spot in the annual contest.

There’s a whole world out there full of things we have no idea about – different types of radiation, sounds, and colors - and a new body sensor called the North Sense is here to help you experience a part of this augmented reality.

By building a robotic version of the mudskipper fish, scientists have learned that its tail plays a crucial role while it's crawling on the land – the finding could have implications for the design of walking robots.​

It was only last month that futurists Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warned about the dangers of intelligent robots, and a new research project led by the University of Cambridge won't do much to put their minds at ease.

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have grown underwater chimney-like structures capable of generating enough electricity to power a light bulb. The seafloor equivalents of these chemical gardens might just have contributed the electricity needed for the first organisms to develop.

Researchers have built a digital music generation engine called DarwinTunes, where simple loops evolve into more complex sequences according to consumer appeal.

Velomobile manufacturer Beyss is introducing the Go-One Evolution, a human-powered vehicle which will be an improvement over their current model, the Go-One3.

A Duke University scientist believes he has figured out the secret behind the popularity of the golden ratio – and it’s all down to evolution.

A logbook from the 1872-1876 journey of HMS Challenger is to go to auction. Challenger was tasked with constructing a fossil record that would test the then new theory of evolution and became inextricably linked with the God vs. Science debate.