Skippers are fascinating insects found across the globe, with around 3,500 species in existence. They’re renowned for their swift, agile flight patterns. Interestingly, skippers seem to bridge ...
One woman traveling on a Turkish Airlines flight from Johannesburg to Istanbul said she witnessed a bedbug crawling on her seat while in the air, The New York Times reported this month.
While at the University of Oxford, Dr Windsor investigated how insects use visual information to control their flight. Using a virtual reality flight simulator for insects, the flight forces and head ...
Once the temps drop and snowflakes begin to fall, it’s easy to assume that insects have simply disappeared. And while many do ...
Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram ...
IN his interesting article, Dr. O. Sotavalta 1 discusses the estimation of the wing-stroke frequency of insects by their audible note. This method is older than he ...
Researchers are pulling from video games, sports broadcasting, meteorology, and even missile guidance technology to better investigate how insects have mastered flight. Amanda was an associate editor ...
French entomologist Antoine Magnan wrote that bumblebees "should not be able to fly," as their small wings should ...
The MIT researchers were able to significantly increase the flight time of an insect-sized flapping wing robot compared to ...
New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and ...