Ace Combat in real life? This folding VTOL foam aircraft gives you a first-person view from inside a tiny toy fighter jet ...

Grasshopper’s gangly, awkward flight could solve the biggest power problems in robotics. Standard micro-bots are modeled ...

Princeton engineers investigated the secret to grasshoppers' efficient gliding, inspiring a new approach for robotic flight.

The South Korean armed forces have showcased a stealthy-shaped flying wing drone in a huge military parade in Seoul today. A small uncrewed aircraft like this could offer the country a less detectable ...

Blended wing aircraft could slash carbon emissions. This rendering shows a design by California-based JetZero, which aims to have a plane in service by 2030. (Jet Zero) The basic design of commercial ...

If fruit fly wings do not develop into the right shape, the flies will die. Researchers have learned how fly embryo cells develop as they need to, opening a window into human development and possible ...

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)Aug 9 2024 A key question that remains in biology and biophysics is how three-dimensional tissue shapes emerge during animal ...

About a year ago the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) introduced to the world the companies that were tasked with working on something called the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less ...

When an airplane flies, the wings are designed to provide enough lift to overcome the airplane’s weight, so the plane doesn’t ...

Nobody thinks that the present design of planes is definitive. One who has revolutionary ideas about the next step is brainy, energetic John Knudsen Northrop. He thinks the tail ought to come off: he ...

Liu Chang isn’t your typical airline pilot. The 24-year-old from Harbin, in northeast China, trained in biology, doesn’t have a driver’s license, and cannot legally fly a small Cessna. But in November ...