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.

What began as the Absurd Creature of the Week column, and became the Absurd Creatures web video series, has now inspired Netflix’s new Absurd Planet docu-series.

A machine is mastering the complex physics of Jenga. That's a big step in the daunting quest to get robots to manipulate objects in the real world.

Introducing "HardWIRED: Welcome to the Robotic Future," a new video series in which we explore the many fascinating machines that are transforming society.

Some 11 billion pounds of plastic particles are blanketing the surface alone. But a new study points to hope—if countries act now.

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It’s hard to overstate just how brilliant and huge an idea Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was and continues to be. It absolutely rocked Victorian England, to the extent...

Think those needle noses were only made for eating insects? Think again

Our forebears couldn’t for the life of them figure out how maggots could just up and appear in a corpse, or how oysters just seemed to materialize in the sea. They had to have been spontaneously...

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In my book The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar, I profile a lot of bizarre creatures. But none has a weirder sex life than the worm that penis-fences.

The jewel wasp enslaves cockroaches, stinging their brains in ridiculously precise spots and injecting mind-controlling venom. The wasp then leads its zombified roach to a chamber, where it lays a...

To protect against brood parasites, which lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving them to raise their chicks, female superb fairy-wrens teach their embryos a "password" while they're...

The idea of "zombie scrolling syndrome" has legs, after all. From worms to wasps, nature has figured out mind control—in ways that bring to mind social media.

Want robots that don’t crush our skulls? Well, we better give them a sense of touch.

Coming up on Absurd Creature 100, we look back at the ones that made us suspect that the universe is inherently evil.

Using a furnace is so 1922. In 2022, humanity has to massively ramp up adoption of clean ways to heat buildings.

It's about the hardware, yes. But more and more it's about the AI inside the scarycute dogs and humanoids.

They both release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them?

Researchers worry that microplastics may be messing with an important carbon sequestration process.

This week, we list all the ways plastic is ruining our planet and making us sick, then come up with some ideas for reversing the damage.

Allow us to explain the gruesome process by which ordinary ants become the pawns of an insidious and spectacularly clever fungus.

If LSD is having its renaissance, 75-year-old English countess Amanda Feilding is its Michelangelo.

Did you know a network of nearly 4,000 robots are bobbing up and down in the world’s oceans? Other ocean robots are helping us understand the climate and national security impacts of a melting Arctic...

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Researcher in remote Chagos Islands says he saw crabs, previously thought to be scavengers, hunting and killing seabird