The sandfish lizard moves very efficiently through the sands of the Sahara desert, and not surprisingly, it doesn't use wheels to do so. Scientists have now copied the reptile's swimming motion in an ...

Getting stuck in sand has ended dreams of exploration before. On Mars, where loose dunes, soft soil and rocky terrain stretch for thousands of kilometres, a trapped rover can mean the loss of years of ...

Over millions of years of evolution, nature has devised solutions for many problems that scientists like to copy. A team from Würzburg and Bremen has been inspired by a lizard for the wheels of a Mars ...