When you think of someone having an active imagination, you probably picture a child. Make-believe is among the building blocks of childhood that give kids an innate ability to unleash big ideas. But ...

Scientists at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have created a magnetic “metasheet” that can move objects and liquids around without needing robot arms or grippers. The device is essentially a ...

The 50 or so items in the show are drawn from the 1.5 million in the museum’s permanent collection CAMBRIDGE — “Moving” is a lexical two-fer. As a verb, it pertains to location, as in getting from one ...

More than 50,000 historical objects are being moved to a new hub at the Royal Air Force Museum in the Midlands. The museum in Shropshire is trying to raise money to fund the transfer of the items, ...

Researchers have succeeded in directing floating objects around an aquatic obstacle course using only soundwaves. Their novel, optics-inspired method holds great promise for biomedical applications ...

Locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another, is an essential survival strategy for virtually every organism. Adapting to the unpredictable terrain they run into, cells, fungi and ...

A metamaterial is a composite material that exhibits unique properties due to its structure, and now researchers have used one featuring a small sawtooth pattern on its surface to move and position ...