Beth Moon, a photographer based in San Francisco, has been searching for the world's oldest trees for the past 14 years. She has traveled all around the globe to capture the most magnificent trees that grow in remote locations and look as old as the world itself.

Insect-inspired robot has wings that buzz thanks to new type of electric 'muscle' The prototype can fly at 1.6mph and was created by Bristol University scientists It has a wing span of 5.9 inches and weighs 0.01lbs, about the size of a dragonfly Wing design was inspired by a firefly and acts like negatively charged electrode Two positively charged electrodes sit above and below, causing the wing to flap An insect-inspired flying robot with wings that buzz thanks to a new type of electric 'muscle' has been developed by British scientists.

Metalbird started as a New Zealand based guerrilla street art project in 2009. Inspired by stencil artist Banksy, I designed, crafted and hammered up dozens of life-sized, Metalbird stencils for no other reason than to surprise, delight and intrigue. In parks, in fences and on power poles...

By Hannah S. Ostroff No green thumb? You don't need to water these dazzling orchids to enjoy them. More than 8,000 living specimens in the Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection have been digitized and are now available to see and study from anywhere in the world.

In celebration of 150 years of exploration, the editors of the British scientific journal Nature asked Northeastern's Center for Complex Network Research to analyze, categorize, and ultimately visualize tens of thousands of articles. The end result is nothing short of cosmic.

Stanford researchers made a groundbreaking discovery about brain tumors. The study reports high-grade gliomas form synapses which hijack electrical signals from healthy neurons in the brain, promoting tumor growth. Interrupting the signals with a drug currently used to treat epilepsy reduces the tumor growth in mouse models.

This small lake outside Stockholm, Sweden, emits otherworldly sounds as Mårten Ajne skates over its precariously thin, black ice. "Wild ice skating," or "Nordic skating," is both an art and a science. A skater seeks out the thinnest, most pristine black ice possible-both for its smoothness, and for its high-pitched, laser-like sounds.