When it comes to getting into standup paddling, so much emphasis is put on the board and paddle that it’s easy to overlook one of the sport’s most essential elements: the fin. When it comes to getting ...

Surfers have been experimenting with fins ever since Tom Blake commandeered a keel off an abandoned speedboat and screwed it into the bottom of a paddleboard in 1935. In the century that followed, ...

As biologists know, nature can take its sweet time explaining itself. Andrew Gillis, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), has been investigating how the paired fins of fishes ...

We love a little outside-the-box thinking around here, and anytime we see robots that don’t use wheels and motors to do the moving, we take notice. So when a project touting robotic fish using ...