To build a really tough robot, let them be babies first, says roboticist Josh Bongard, He says the most robust robots are those that change their body forms while learning to walk.
Hundreds of millions of people contract malaria every year. New high resolution images show the mosquito-borne parasite in the act of breaking into a red blood cell.
Most of the world's bacteria exist in communities known as biofilm. According to Harvard researchers, biofilm is like an impenetrable fortress on a microscopic scale.