In Issaquah, Washington, a young East African crowned crane has escaped from Cougar Mountain Zoo, triggering a local search ...

An iconic Southern California stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway, closed to outsiders since January’s devastating Palisades ...

SEATTLE -- In Washington state, it wasn't a flock of seagulls that ran so far away, but a single rare bird that managed to sneak out of her habitat at a zoo outside of Seattle. And on Friday morning, ...

Cape Town - Passengers whose flights have been cancelled or delayed by the relatively new low cost carrier Fly Blue Crane are furious at the airline as their complaints and queries are falling on deaf ...

Authorities are working on a crash on Interstate 85 that damaged the bridge that crosses over Orange Grove Road, according to the Orange Rural Fire Department. Orange Grove Road remains closed in ...

Can you tell me what these flies are? They were on a wall in the garden. Are they some sort of stonefly? Albert Mason, Kilcoole, Co Wicklow These are crane flies: not the typical daddy longlegs we ...

Imagine tiny robotic bees buzzing around fields of wildflowers, helping real bees carry out their crucial pollinating duties decades in the future. It’s a vision that Harvard’s Microrobotics ...

That's why scientists at Harvard University have now given their RoboBee a set of long, jointed legs much like those of the crane fly. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the RoboBee ...

The latest improvement: RoboBee has learned how to stick the landing, thanks to biomechanical improvements to its landing gear modeled on the crane fly, which has a similar wingspan and body size ...

RoboBee comes in for a landing Microrobot gets crane fly-inspired legs for soft touchdowns Date: April 16, 2025 Source: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Summary ...

Whether you call them crane flies or "skeeter" hawks, the spindly-legged flying insect is an annoyance to humans and a plaything for pets every spring. Crane flies begin to emerge from grassy ...

During the day, they fly to the surrounding farm fields to feast on ... In the morning, as the sun becomes a red ball turning the skies orange, another pageant begins. One crane rises from the ankle ...