Philanthropy backs bold science as federal funds shrink. Schmidt Polymaths support Saad Bhamla’s work on biomechanics of everyday organisms from ripple bugs to flamingos.

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NO, no, no, no, no,” Sir James Dyson tells me. I’m squashed into the back of a classic Mini as it whizzes me and the legendary British inventor around the streets of Berlin. I’d just asked him a ...

If you want to walk on water, it helps to have fancy feet. With the help of their feet, the rice grain–sized ripple bugs can make sharp turns in just 50 milliseconds and move up to 120 body lengths ...

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Escape 2025 by visiting spots that evoke the 1997-2003 era, from the birthplace of the internet to a bar decked with Furbies ...

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In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and ...

At the least, 'Borderlands 4' can erase the taste that the blockbuster-that-wasn’t left in our mouths — but it promises a lot ...

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