Giant spiders the size of a human hand have had a record breeding year in the UK following conservation efforts. A decade ago, Chester Zoo released thousands of fen raft Spiders after the species ...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has designed this tiny, robotic hand that could capture a virus, neutralizing its ...

A tiny, four-fingered "hand" folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy sparked a revolution in scientists’ understanding of the origins of ...

Tesla’s Optimus robot has shown off its new and improved dexterity in a recent video on Elon Musk’s platform X.

Tesla has unveiled a new and upgraded hand for its Optimus humanoid robot and released an impressive albeit still ...

University of Illinois researchers are working on developing a tiny “hand” made up of DNA that can rapidly detect viruses and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Due to their complex and delicate features, human hands have always been a challenge to replicate in the robotics field. Two researchers, Zhe Zu and Emanuel Todorov ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The hand is where the mind meets the world. We humans use our hands to build fires and sew quilts, to steer airplanes, to ...