Unsure about a new design? Scientists and engineers often start with a model. With a model, you can test new ideas on a small-scale before going bigger. They are also cheaper, easier to produce, and ...

David Adam is a writer in Hertford, near London. Certain aspects of scientific life do not lend themselves to working from home. Archaeologist Adrià Breu, who studies neolithic pottery at the ...

The choreographed movements that cells perform to form complex biological shapes, like our hands, have fascinated scientists ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand ...