Materials inspired by nature, or biomimetic materials, are nothing new. Scientists have designed water-resistant materials inspired by lotus leaves and rose petals, unsinkable metals based on the ...

Virginia tightened its grip on the team race Friday night at the NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. The Cavaliers benefited from a victory in the 100 backstroke from Claire Curzan, a ...

Simipour debuted in Pokemon Black and White as part of a trio of elemental monkeys. The concept behind the group was simple: each monkey represented a starter type through visual cues and elemental ...

A new kind of superhydrophobic metal, inspired by a water-dwelling spider, could form the foundational tech for “unsinkable” ships. The structure uses laser-etched nano- and microscale metals that ...

Mathieu Amalric and Marie-Josee Croze in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 2007. Mathieu Amalric and Marie-Josee Croze in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 2007.RGR Collection/Alamy In 1995, 43-year ...

Toss a coin into a fountain, and you know what will happen. Being denser than water, the metal sinks—ask any child. But new research has challenged centuries of certainty. A team at the University of ...

More than a century after the Titanic sank, engineers still have hopes of someday creating “unsinkable” ships. In a step toward reaching that lofty goal, researchers at the University of Rochester’s ...

He’s not your typical stoner. A bean burrito-brained bandit broke into a Florida Taco Bell through its drive-thru window and then robbed workers and customers armed with a “large rock,” authorities ...

This is the amusing moment a pet dog explored the underwater world in a custom-made diving bell alongside its owner. Footage shows the Bichon Frise sitting safely inside the transparent diving capsule ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The diving bell spider (Argyroneta aquatica) is the only spider species known to live almost entirely underwater. This is quite an ...