For centuries, engineers have turned to nature for inspiration. Leonardo da Vinci dreamed of gliding machines that would mimic birds. Today, the close study of animals and plants is leading to ...

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Manufacturing: A Divergent factory in Torrance. (Photo c/o Divergent) When the U.S. began prioritizing onshore manufacturing for national security purposes after years of relying on other countries, ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

A tiny skull found on a beach in Devon has rewritten the early history of lizards, snakes and the tuatara, the last survivor of an ancient reptile lineage found only in New Zealand today. The new ...

Divergent is partnering with General Atomics to develop 3D-printed UAV structures. Credit: Hexagon AB Digital and additive manufacturing newcomer Divergent Technologies, which is trying to leverage ...

An operator uses a Colibrium Additive M2 laser powder bed fusion machine at the GE Aerospace Additive Technology Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Divergent Technologies employs laser powder bed fusion as ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...

The film, TV and gaming studio released a 5-minute teaser for its first artificial intelligence-driven feature film, ‘The Woman With Red Hair,’ directed by Brett Stuart. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau ...

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...

In the summer of 2020, scientists in Pennsylvania caught sight of something no one had ever seen before: a bird that looked like a rose-breasted grosbeak but sang like a scarlet tanager. Upon closer ...