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 ...

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

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 ...

A tiny, four-fingered "hand" folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly sensitive rapid detection and can even block viral particles from entering cells to ...

A bug smuggler was busted trying to leave Peru with 320 tarantulas strapped to his body — including dozens as big as a human ...