When it's time to design new robots, sometimes the best inspiration can come from Mother Nature. Take, for example, her creepy, but incredibly athletic spider crickets. Johns Hopkins engineering ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are dissecting crickets' jumps, not with a scalpel, but with high-speed cameras to analyze their patterns of movement. Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ...

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Temperatures may have warmed back up to late-summer range, but recent nighttime forays into the 50s have already brought the chirping of crickets around the outside of houses, and sometimes even ...

WASHINGTON — They look like scary spiders, live in the dark and can jump more than a foot with each hop. Plus, they scare the heck out of people who are squeamish about bugs. "They're a menace to ...

They look like spiders and jump like crickets - and they could be heading for your home, or hiding there right now. Spider crickets are being reported across the UK with reports of the strange ...

If you watch science fiction movies, the robots of the future look like us. The truth is, though, many tasks go better when robots don’t look like us. Sometimes they are unique to a particular job or ...

Researcher Malcolm Burrows was sitting next to a South African pond eating lunch one day when he heard an odd noise coming from the water. What he found surprised him: pygmy mole crickets hopping off ...