As a species, we’ve done a pretty good job at inventing some useful devices. But as clever as we think we are, given sufficient time, natural selection will beat us at our game at almost every turn.

At first glance, a hook lift is easy to understand. The name says it all. A hook lift assembly is used to lift containers and other bodies onto and off of a truck for easy, secure transport. Yet, ...

Engineer George de Mestral was walking his dogs in the meadows of the Swiss Alps. When they returned home, he noticed that burr seed pods were stuck on his dogs’ fur! He even found some stuck to his ...