Robots helped achieve a major breakthrough in our understanding of how insect flight evolved. The study is a result of a six-year long collaboration between roboticists and biophysicists. Robots built ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

Insects have been incredibly successful in developing ways of flying, with an ultra-fast flapping mode that scientists thought had evolved multiple times over history. Now, researchers have ...

As a flying machine, a mosquito is not efficient, but since its weight is low it gets 450 million miles per gallon of nectar, which it uses as fuel. In the Scientific Monthly, Professor Brian Hocking ...

Researchers study the flight performance of the mountain pine beetle from a fluid mechanics and an entomological perspective. Understanding these aspects of the insect's flight could improve estimates ...

Tiny wings and tinier solar cells allow autonomous movement in a new robotic “bee.” By Knvul Sheikh For years now, scientists have sought to build aerial robots inspired by bees and other flying ...

About 350 million years ago, our planet witnessed the evolution of the first flying creatures. They are still around, and some of them continue to annoy us with their buzzing. While scientists have ...

The fusion of a living beetle and a tiny control backpack, also known as cyborg beetle, enables insect free-flight study. Using such a system, researchers from Nanyang Technological University, ...

Falconry, winter bird migration on the NC coast, slo-mo insect flight and fly-fishing. Explore the ancient sport of falconry, and watch tens of thousands of migratory birds that winter on the NC coast ...