The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...rovide safety through “seriously ridiculous deception .” The unit of camoufleurs— soldiers t...  ...one crucial factor: Maskelyne’s role in the deception . Official records offer little information about...  ...ecame a key player i...

Look at that cute face -looks kind of like Zoidberg, doesn't it? But that's not this insect's face. In fact, it doesn't even have a face quite yet, because this is the pupa form of the skipper butterfly. The eye spots ar...

A rare species of lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedi...  ...only orchid that attracts pollinating insects by deception , as you'll see in the article at Not Exactly Rock...

Jason Bourne, a foreign service officer played by Matt Damon in several movies, is a wonderful character who uses really awesome tricks and tools to carry out missions. In this article, the Bourne movie series is dissect...

Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne programmed robots to move around an area, looking for particular rings designated as food, and avoid others designated as poison. Whenever they found food, t...