A heavily stylised desk with eye catching colours and curves. This comparison explores smartphones and basic phones. Comparing sleek design and multifunctionality of smartphones with the practical ...

Biologists long have known that both the appearance of organisms and their inner workings are shaped by evolution. But do the same genetic mechanisms underlie changes in form and function? A new study ...

Because tooth shape varies with fracture properties of the foods that primates eat, relationships between dental form and function can teach us about the diets of our distant ancestors. Aristotle ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. With its clamp-shaped hands and legs that bend backwards, one of the latest humanoid robots tried to move a can ...