the scientist given credit for the mole concept, but who discovered other things in chemistry too. The word "mole" suggests a small, furry burrowing animal to many. But in this TED-Ed lesson, we look ...

The US space agency lander's HP3 "mole" was designed to dig up to 5m into the ground and began burrowing last week. But controllers back on Earth called a halt to operations when no progress was ...

The moles’ burrowing habits make them difficult to track down, and the creatures have extremely sensitive hearing that can detect vibrations from movement above ground, helping them to avoid ...

Berkeley researchers demonstrate EMBUR, a burrowing robot modeled on mole crabs, at Hannah Stuart’s Embodied Dexterity Lab at UC Berkeley. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering) Disclaimer ...

Chris Packham uses a man-made burrow to observe the ways that moles have adapted for life underground. He explains how they require less oxygen than other mammals and, though they have poor ...

NASA has given up on its InSight lander's "mole" after two years of trying to dig more than a few inches into Mars' uncooperative soil. The 16-inch-long pile driver was designed to hammer through ...

A German-led "mole" system will burrow up to 5m into the ground to take the planet's temperature. This will give a sense of how active Mars still is. And the third experiment will use radio ...