Robotics researchers regularly turn to the natural world for inspiration, and those working on machines that fly are no different. An international team of scientists has taken this approach to ...

Mike Romano says, “Reading the story (in the Monday column) about Pat Atkinson having a flapping duck in her fireplace reminded me of an encounter shortly after I moved to Lake Rosemound, many years ...

The past few years have seen a whole flotilla of drone types that emulates nature’s most fearsome birds of prey—aerial predators that can zoom, dodge, hover, attack and scope out targets at incredible ...

PEDERNALES, Ecuador -- Rescuers searching through quake-collapsed buildings in Ecuador have found an unusual survivor: A flapping duck that had been buried under a pile of rubble. The white-and-brown ...