Science

A team of researchers from the Cambridge-MIT Institute has developed a robot that can assemble itself in a method that resembles the art of origami. The material used to construct this machine is comprised of the same polymer found in Shrinky Dink toys, which shrink when exposed to high temperatures.

The world’s oldest European eel died on Friday, according to the BBC, causing an uproar among Swedes who loved that old eel. The eel was born in 1859 and lived in a well.

A fisheries biologist is recovering at the QEII Hospital after being attacked by a cougar late Tuesday evening in the Nose Mountain area, about 100 kilometres southwest of Grande Prairie.

Thousands of fish were discovered dead in Langley City’s Brydon Lagoon over the long weekend. It was the worst fish kill ever recorded at the 29-year-old lagoon.

The unique eye structure of deep-sea bioluminescent sharks helps them survive in the twilight zone, a study has found. Detailed mapping of the eye structure of five species of bioluminescent sharks reveals they have a higher rod densities than other sharks, report a team of international researchers in the journal PLOS ONE.

An 800-pound tiger shark was caught this weekend by a man from San Antonio fishing just a few miles off the coast of Port Aransas. He never expected to hook the 12-foot tiger shark, and the fight to reel him in wasn’t easy.

NASA will alter the orbital pathway of its $297 million Mars Odyssey orbiter on Tuesday in an effort to remove it from the danger zone of a super-speed dust from a massive comet that will fly very close to the Red Planet on Oct. 19. NASA already made one unannounced change to the path of its other Mars spacecraft, the …

Maybe you enjoyed livetweeting Sharknado 2 last week, but sometimes science does Hollywood one better. This video from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute shows you how just terrifying it actually is:

Tourists exploring the Adelaide River in north Australia were left shocked after witnessing a massive 5.5 metre saltwater crocodile – known locally as Brutus – sink its teeth into a ferocious bull shark.

Even with excitement growing over the prospect of driverless cars and the development of machines that are smarter than ever, technology entrepreneur Elon Musk warns artificial intelligence could in fact present a greater threat to humanity than nuclear weapons. Musk, the CEO of the space transport company SpaceX, warned in a tweet during the weekend humans, by relying so much …

This fisherman in China must have thought his luck was in when he pulled in his net on Friday to find a “giant fish” weighing two tonnes trapped inside.