Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and Tufts University have engineered frog-cell constructs that autonomously assemble ...

Biobots, whose growing line of variants started with xenobots, are fascinating tiny self-powered living robots built ...

Developmental biologists at Tufts University in Massachusetts have produced what they call “neurobots”, small clumps of cells ...

Frog brains get busy long before they’re fully formed. Just a day after fertilization, embryonic brains begin sending signals to far-off places in the body, helping oversee the layout of complex ...

A new class of living robots integrates neurons that self-organize and alter shape, gene expression, and behavior. The ...

In 1921, Otto Loewi woke from a dream with the idea for an experiment that proved nerves communicate using chemicals, not just electricity. By showing that stimulating one frog’s heart released a ...

The sketch above is the frog galvanoscope, a super-sensitive electrical instrument used in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to detect voltage. The instrument was invented by Luigi Galvani. In ...

A new study that compared the effects of cold and warm temperatures on the development of frog eggs into larvae found that environmental temperature significantly changes how the nervous system ...

Deep in the forests of South America live poison dart frogs that carry around a toxin 200 times more potent than morphine. While it packs a fatal punch for predators, the poison doesn't much affect ...