Author: Matt Simon

Fearing isolation in case of disaster, the Blue Lake Rancheria teamed with researchers to develop a one-of-a-kind microgrid. Here's how they did it.

At first glance, the triangle-weaver spider builds a web like any other spider. But once an insect hits that web, something damn near logic-defying happens.

A new UN report paints a dire portrait of Earth's human-made biodiversity crisis. But with new genetic techniques in conservation, perhaps we can help save species before it's too late.

To take pressure off endangered lemurs, researchers are encouraging the people of Madagascar to embrace bugs as a source of protein.

Wearing a haptic feedback glove, I pilot a robotic hand from across the world, feeling what it feels. The sensation is almost too weird to be real.

Yeast gives us beer and bread. Now researchers have engineered it to do something more improbable: manufacturing the cannabis compounds CBD and THC.

Despite the astonishing size of Wallace's giant bee, the species was lost to science for 40 years. This is the story of its dramatic rediscovery.

The assumption goes that lab-grown meat will drastically reduce emissions of beef production. But you know what they say about assumptions.

NASA announced that, after 15 years and 5,000 charge cycles, the Mars rover Opportunity is officially dead. Here’s what killed the tenacious little robot.

AntBot looks for the polarized light from the sun in order to find its way. Your robot car could do the same one day.