Another natural wonder. This time brought to you by ants. Trap-jaw ants use their jaws to propel themselves into the air to evade predators. They can achieve heights of...

July 21, 2008 6:00 AMShacknews recently published a new hands-on preview of Will Wright's upcoming god sim, Spore. In the game players take single celled organisms from...

We’ve had a bit of an issue in the Bean household the last week or so with some annoying little critters. We’ve had issues with ants crawling all over our kitchen...

It is a natural human trait to believe that we (the species) are the inventors of all clever things. Not so. One of the humbling things that biomimicry teaches us very...

Grab the Lasso tool in Photoshop and trace around something. Or use one of the other selection tools if you prefer. Regardless of how you do it, the boundary of your...

Day 1, Saturday. Belize City’s airport is small and squat and it takes two minutes to get through customs. The tropical/post-colonial architecture and typography is...

There have always been ants in our apartment. When we first moved in, near-microscopic red ants scurried across the kitchen counter looking for dropped morsels of food....

It’s ok if you think I’m a bit crazy. Everyone else around me does too, because I’ve been excited– even to the point of giddy– about making up a...