Engineers are closing in on a long imagined goal in aviation, wings that can subtly change shape in midair instead of relying ...

The Ikhana unmanned aircraft system has been used by NASA last year to fight wildfires from the sky and this month to provide images of current Californian wildfires to authorities (link to NASA ...

An analysis of hoverfly flight shows that wing design, not faster flapping, enables the smallest species to generate enough lift to fly. The study, published today in eLife as the final Version of ...

By studying how grasshoppers glide and fold their wings, researchers are finding new ways to extend flight time for ...