MIT researchers have demonstrated aerial microrobots that can fly with speed and agility that is comparable to their ...

It’s not very common that a robot the size of a paper clip is able to do ten flips in eleven seconds and keep on course within five centimeters, says Markus Waibel of Waibel Robotics in Zurich. But ...

A team of experimental neurobiologists and theoretical biologists has managed to solve a mystery that has been baffling scientists for decades. They have been able to determine the nature of the ...

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 ...

Mosquitoes are some of the fastest-flying insects. Flapping their wings more than 800 times a second, they achieve their speed because the muscles in their wings can flap faster than their nervous ...

An art exhibit at Reiman Gardens gloriously combines steel and glass, catching light and elevating its subject: Insects. “Glass in Flight” punctuates the 17 acres at Reiman Gardens with 20 sculptures ...

Each year we look forward to the marvels that the natural world shows us in early October. With a dazzling display of bright colors in the tree leaves, we are seldom disappointed. As usual, this year ...

The plaintiffs Romulo Albuquerque, his wife, Lisandra Garcia and their two children, Benicio and Lorenzo Albuquerque, took a ...

BUZZY BEAUTIES? Flowers are famous for attracting little winged things, but a less common sight is when sizable buzzers buzz by a blooming hillside. Like really sizable, the sorts of bugs not seen in ...