yet no manufactured device matches the graceful movements and mechanics of bird wings. It’s easy to marvel at the magic of a bird in flight, but understanding how it all works makes the process ...

Plein air painting and a photography contest in a southern Indiana national wildlife refuge will be among the featured events ...

Bird wings act as a suspension system that rejects gusts In collaborative work with Prof Richard Bomphrey at the Royal Veterinary College, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, we have ...

A sighting of a ruby-throated hummingbird was reported Wednesday, April 16, at a Cortlandt Manor bird feeder in northern ...

Now, researchers at EPFL have brought this biological approach to robotics with the LisEagle, a drone featuring morphing wings and tail ... Three of these control the bird-like wingtips and ...

While the airliner of the 2030s might still look like the boring old cylinder-and-wings template that appeared in the 1930s, it can still benefit from remarkable innovations. Future Airliner The ...

Xia Wang, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Geological Sciences, with bird's wing. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...