The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail's exceptional flexibility is ...

This news release is available in Japanese. The seahorse tail is square because this shape is better at resisting damage and at grasping than a circular tail would be, a new engineering study shows.

If you’re prone to tripping or losing balance, then researchers in Japan may have an unusual solution: a robotic tail. A team at Keio University in Tokyo has designed a wearable human tail, which is ...

Examine a cross-section of a seahorse’s tail, and you’ll find a square instead of a circular pattern. To understand why, an international group of researchers combined computer modeling and 3-D ...

There are lots of companies who make wearable tails for humans, but they’re usually for cosplay or other entertainment pursuits. Researchers at Keio University in Japan have created a wearable ...

We’ve seen all kinds of weirdness when it comes to augmenting the human body with bionic parts, like these additional metalimb arms or these 3D printed “double hands.” But the electronic beefing up of ...

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