Earthworms move through the soil not just by wriggling around, but by sending peristaltic waves down their bodies. A new robot, which employs that same strategy, could one day be used in underground ...

Peristaltic flow arises from travelling waves along flexible or deformable boundaries and underpins transport in biological systems and advanced microfluidic devices. In channels with complex ...

To keep blood and oxygen flowing throughout their bodies, most animals depend on a beating heart. But researchers reporting in Current Biology on July 10 have discovered that sea spiders use a strange ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Although the fundamental circuitry required to generate a coordinated forward or backward sequence of contractions is assembled ...