Copley Equity Partners has made an investment to back the recapitalization and merger of two aerial inspection companies, Toronto-based Aethon Aerial Solutions and San Diego-based Flight Evolved. No ...

Mosquitoes are some of the fastest-flying insects. Flapping their wings more than 800 times a second, they achieve their speed because the muscles in their wings can flap faster than their nervous ...

Robots helped achieve a major breakthrough in our understanding of how insect flight evolved. The study is a result of a six-year long collaboration between roboticists and biophysicists. Robots built ...

Using robotic and animal models, researchers have shown that some dinosaurs were already flapping their rudimentary wings as a side effect of running, prior to evolving the ability to fly. The finding ...

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land on the next tree. Many groups of mammals seem to have taken this evolutionary advice to heart. According to our newly published paper in Science ...

Bats are the only mammals that can fly, and new research finds that this extraordinary, winged ability arises from reactivating ancient genes. This study will help to clarify how bats evolved from ...