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It seems that every once in a while, nature's marvels provide more than just a beautiful thing to look at. The scientific field of biomimetics is actually based on this idea, and borrows from nature's creations those principles that might be adapted to devices or materials that could make humans’ live... |
11 December 2008
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The recent discovery of the Microraptor gui species of dinosaur (translated as “Small thief” or “Small raider”) stands as further proof that dinosaurs are the ancestors of modern birds. The fact that puzzled researchers was its being provided with two sets of wings, which is highly unusua... |
9 October 2008
10:00 GMT |
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The dragonfly is the aerial stunt of the insect world. Dragonflies were amongst the first insects to fly, about 300 Ma ago. 290 Ma ago, the dragonflies had a wingspan of 68 cm (2.3 ft). They can fly fast, up to 60 km (37 mi) per hour, which is an amazing feat for an insect, but also slowly, backwards (the hummingbird... |
15 May 2008
06:01 GMT |
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It is impossible to be fooled when seeing these insects. Butterflies and moths make the Order Lepidoptera. These insects would fly around during the dinosaur era, 140 Ma ago. First were the moths, butterflies appearing much later. The oldest known butterfly fossil is 40 Ma old: Prodryas persephone, discovered at Lake... |
21 March 2008
17:56 GMT |
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Only three groups of animals really fly today: insects, birds and bats. Flight requires the use of organs called wings, but their structure and functioning differ enormously from one group to another. Anyhow, all flying animals are heavier than the air and only the wings movement and the use of air currents keep them... |
27 February 2008
09:37 GMT |
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Birds are the only living dinosaurs, and the transition from hatchling to adult appears to be like a transition from flightless dinosaurs to flying dinosaurs. A new research published in "Nature" reveals how young birds must control the wing angles in order to achieve flying.The team led by Kenneth Dial of the Univer... |
25 January 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Man has always been fascinated by the mysteries of flight and dreamed of conquering the skies and achieving the grace of birds. Icarus from the Greek legends flied with wings of wax, but got too close to the Sun, his wings melted, and he fell to the ground. The great Leonardo da Vinci, artist and Renascence inventor ... |
15 January 2008
08:22 GMT |
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A prototype device that cools a computer's processor by creating a wind effect made of charged particles, or ions, was developed by researchers from the Purdue University in Indiana, United States in collaboration with the chip manufacturing company Intel.According to the researchers, the ionic wind that travels... |
15 August 2007
06:15 GMT |
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This is the largest flying bird ever: Argentavis magnificens, having a wingspan up to 8.3 m (28 ft) and weighing up 100 kg (220 pounds). This bird resembles a condor and was somehow related with the condors and the ... storks! It inhabited the pampas of Argentina about five million years ago. Now, researchers investi... |
3 July 2007
05:03 GMT |
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Most penguins are a little bigger than a duck, with some exceptions, but their prehistoric cousins were much larger and unlike modern ice-loving species, they might have basked in a warm beach on the Peruvian coast over 30 million years ago, as two fossils suggest. One species had a seven-inch (18 cm) beak, was 5 ft ... |
26 June 2007
04:58 GMT |
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Is there any connection between sexual harassment and the flight ability?It seems so...A Chinese woman said her cat has grown wings, reports the Huashang News. Granny Feng remained stunned when she saw how her pet mysteriously grew two 10 cm (4inch)-long wing-like sprouts on its back. "At first, they were just two bu... |
2 June 2007
05:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has recently announced that this Wednesday (that's tomorrow for gamers staying up all night losing track of time), Aegis Wing will be available as a free download, via XBLA, for both Gold and Silver members. Aegis Wing has been developed 3 MS interns over the past summer, as Evil Avatar reports. To you... |
15 May 2007
04:35 GMT |
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Have you ever imagined a plane flapping its wings in the bat style?The flexible flight of the bats, so different from the rigid wing beat of the birds, could be a model for new versatile aircrafts.A Swedish research resembles a previous American one, in trying to set up the details of the sophisticated bat flight in ... |
11 May 2007
02:51 GMT |
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The history of aviation, though short (only a bit more than a century) has known the most advances in terms of design technology, building materials and performances of civilian and military aircrafts. The first planes were made of wood, cardboard and cloth, now they are built using the latest development in artifi... |
30 April 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? Nope, it's a bird-plane!What is a bird-plane, you say? It's a futuristic plane concept created by a small research team, that will fly just like a bird. It will arch its broad wings up and then flap them down in one continuous, fluid motion. No turbines or prop... |
21 April 2007
03:44 GMT |
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