Studying the filter-feeding mechanism of mobula rays, engineers developed a new design for industrial cross-flow water filters. Research shows the filter-feeders strike a natural balance between ...

The 21st century has become the century of drone warfare, as the technology to pilot drones to distant battlefields and destroy targets becomes an ever-increasing option for the world's militaries.

Earlier this month, Chinese researchers tested a new undersea drone shaped like a manta ray, in what appears to be its first open water test in the South China Sea. Utilizing a type of bio-inspired ...

Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny crustaceans and certain types of coral and krill, to various molluscs, barnacles, and even massive basking sharks and baleen whales. Now, ...