Shlomi Mir's wind-powered, data-collecting Tumbleweed could help map treacherous desert terrain. Credit: Shlomi Mir When the Sons of the Pioneers crooned about “drifting along with the tumbling ...

They didn't wait for snow to bring Frosty to life along Interstate 40 -- they used what they have: Tumbleweeds. Each day, more than 80,000 vehicles driving through New Mexico's biggest city are ...

Robots have a hard time walking. They’re getting better! But we’re a ways away from having a robot that you can send on an excursion through a dune-covered desert. That’s why, when he wanted to design ...

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They say tumbleweed only rolls past after someone tells a bad joke. But there was nothing to laugh about in this Californian city in the past few days after it was taken over by tumbleweed. Heavy ...

This past spring, Austin residents Anna Uliassi and Arin Fullerton piled into a car along with their two dogs, Arlo and Iris, and hauled a trailer behind them. While driving toward Big Bend National ...

The gnarled icon of the Old West — ominously featured in movies as gunslingers square off on dusty streets and townsfolk shake behind curtained windows — rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling ...

When you’re thinking of the desert, cacti, sand and relentless heat often spring to mind, perhaps with images of a cartoon coyote chasing a roadrunner sprinkled in. The outdoor deck comes complete ...