Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Jellyfish may not look like the most athletic of swimmers, but they're remarkably efficient and their body plan could have advantages ...

NYU's Leif Ristroph wanted to design an exceedingly simple miniature flying robot. Instead of finding inspiration in insects, he turned to the jellyfish, a water dweller. Whereas insect-like bots ...

During this year's Milan design week, Nendo will submerge 30 of its new vases in an aquarium so that they gently move around like jellyfish. The Jellyfish Vases are made from ultrathin transparent ...

A Navy-sponsored project to design a biologically inspired, swimming jellyfish robot has led scientists to the surprising discovery of common bending rules for the tips of wings, fins, flukes, mollusk ...

Scientists have seen the future of under-sea exploration by studying the swimming prowess of tiny jellyfish gathered from Puget Sound off Washington's San Juan Island. The University of Oregon's Kelly ...

John Dabiri thought, while training as an engineer, he would be studying machines like airplanes, and not creatures with no bones that are largely made of water. But jellyfish, the Stanford scientist ...

The animal world continues to inspire aircraft designers. A couple of years ago we published a story about how the fins of humpback whales are helping scientists develop new main rotor blade designs.

Engines inspired by a relative of the jellyfish could power the next generation of underwater vehicles, a new study has found. The gelatinous Nanomia bijuga swims by jetting water from its dozen ...

Richard West has been working at the intersection of design and technology for more than two decades. He is part of a leadership team at Jellyfish that oversees 400 creatives worldwide, supporting ...