New research at the University of Warwick has (pardon the pun) put a new spin on a mathematical analogy involving a jumping grasshopper and its ideal lawn shape. This work could help us understand the ...

Discover the amazing Salto robot, inspired by grasshoppers and designed for exceptional jumping ability. In this video, we ...

Superhumans don’t exist in the real world, but someday you might see super robots. Obviously, robots can be made that are stronger, faster, and better than humans, but do you think there is a limit to ...

A few years ago, the physicists Olga Goulko, Damián Pitalúa-García and Adrian Kent proposed the grasshopper problem. Think of a grasshopper that hops a fixed distance in a random direction. If the ...

Engineers at CU Boulder have designed a new, rubber-like film that can leap high into the air like a grasshopper—all on its own and without needing outside intervention. Just heat it up and watch it ...

Inspired by a conversation with Matan Protter, this week’s Express involves a happily hopping grasshopper: A grasshopper is jumping on a number line and starts at its home at zero (i.e., the “origin”) ...

NORTH POWDER -- Grasshoppers munched more than 21,000 tons of grass and alfalfa in northeast Oregon's Baker County last year, drawing comparisons to a biblical plague. This year could be even worse.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. --Grasslands and crop fields in Minnesota are hoppin' this month. A summertime insect is thriving, reaching numbers higher than usual. On a stroll through the prairie grass at ...

New research has (pardon the pun) put a new spin on a mathematical analogy involving a jumping grasshopper and its ideal lawn shape. This work could help us understand the spin states of ...

If you plop these thin wafers, made up of several layers of a stretchy material called 'liquid crystal elastomers,' onto a hot plate, they will begin to warp. Then, suddenly and explosively, they leap ...