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Dr. Kyle McCarthy works to conserve snow leopard populations in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Coyotes living in urban landscapes have developed the tools to survive.

Robotics scientists invented a tiny robot that folds itself into an origami-inspired configuration and performs a variety tasks.

Scientists like Anthony Pagano are working to help polar bears. They want to find out what polar bears will need to survive in their changing habitat.

Scientists have programmed robots to figure out a way to keep going after becoming damaged.

Ever since scientists working in Madagascar raised money for a new school, life has improved for the village children.

MIT Cheetah, a robot developed at MIT, can run and jump hurdles without missing a step! Sidebar on how its vision system works.

Two scientists at New York University, Dr. Leif Ristroph and Dr. Stephen Childress, invented a flier that has four wide wings around its bell-shaped body.

In 1998 scientists discovered the fossil of an unusual seventy-million-year-old crocodile--one that ate plants and lived in a burrow that it dug with its snout.

Koko the gorilla knows the signs for more than 1,000 words, and she communicates in surprising and clever ways, often using magazines such as Highlights and High Five.