What if urban air taxis could, like birds, vary the configuration of their wings in flight? The answer to such questions ...

Researchers at the Engineering School at Princeton University have taken inspiration from birds to improve flight performance and safety in aircraft. The researchers deployed rows of flaps to the wing ...

Researchers have designed flexible, bat-like wings that boost lift and improve flight performance. This innovation could lead to more efficient drones or energy-harvesting technologies. In 1934, ...

Zoom in far enough on an empress cicada wing, and a strange landscape materializes. At the nanoscale, densely packed spires ...

The old adage, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” may be the best way to describe how Capriotti’s acquisition of Wing Zone came to be. David Bloom, Capriotti’s chief development and operating ...

In 1934, French entomologist Antoine Magnan wrote that bumblebees “should not be able to fly”, as their small wings should theoretically not be able to produce enough lift. It took modern high-speed ...