No matter how good our human designs may be, evolution has had a 4-billion-year head start, so there’s no shame in copying off Mother Nature’s homework. Engineers at the University of Bristol have ...

If even the tiniest bit of turbulence during a flight has you reaching for the barf bag, then you’ll never want to climb aboard this Russian contraption that uses flapping wings to take flight. But it ...

Fig. 2: Beetles can employ their elytra to push the hindwings back to the abdomen after flight without the need for internal muscular activity in the hindwing. Fig. 3: Insect-inspired flapping wings ...