Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Here's a riddle for you, a man is standing in the desert. He's thirsty, parched, and surrounded by fresh water but he can't drink. Why? He's ...

Namib desert beetles live in an area with little ground water, so how is it that they have no trouble finding H2O? Find out how the resourceful insects use their wing scales to absorb water droplets ...

SOMEWHERE IN THE THAR DESERT, India — Ummed Singh, 12, piles blankets on Camu’s burlap saddle and motions for me to climb on. I swing my leg around and hold on. “Lean back,” he tells me. The camel ...

Inspired by a beetle's shell, a cactus spine, and the skin of a carnivorous plant, this slick, bumpy coating is a material straight out of Dune or Star Wars. Put this water-saving coating into a rain ...

Insects are full of marvels - and this is certainly the case with a beetle from the Tenebrionind family, found in the extreme conditions of the Namib desert. Now, a team of scientists has demonstrated ...

Inspired by an obscure desert beetle, polymer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) came up with a way to construct test surfaces with a variable affinity for water.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A tiny beetle is wreaking catastrophic action on the deteriorating Chihuahuan desert. The catastrophic action a tiny beetle is wreaking on the deteriorating Chihuahuan desert will be revealed in the ...

A number of scientists whose work is inspired by natural behavior is constantly growing. The lotus flower, with its ability to self- clean, is commonly described in literature and can be best examples ...

Another first. I found a giant palm boring beetle on my front porch. At 2 inches in length this beetle is truly a giant, nearly twice as large as any other bostrichid beetle, with a huge head and ...