Animals that leap straight up showcase raw power and survival skills. From snow leopards to cougars, these five species are ...

Curious about the physical conditions that enable aquatic animals to leap out of water in such a graceful manner—researchers at Cornell University were inspired to design a robotic system based on ...

Ever watch aquatic animals jump out of the water and wonder how they manage to do it in such a streamlined and graceful way? Researchers who specialize in water entry and exit in nature had the same ...

If you say “jump” I say “how high?” – and a new robot from UC Santa Barbara says “over 100 ft (30 m).” The research team says that’s higher than anything else has ever jumped, be it robot or animal, ...

In the summer of 2021, atop the coastal cliffs of Santa Barbara, California, Chris Keeley, then an undergraduate at the nearby university, crouched to pull a bundle of metal and rubber out of his ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2018 -- Ever watch aquatic animals jump out of the water and wonder how they manage to do it in such a streamlined and graceful way? A group of researchers who ...