Electrons take flight at the nanoscale
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A study showing how electrons flow around sharp bends, such as those found in integrated circuits, has ...
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Planning algorithm enables high-performance flight
A tailsitter is a fixed-wing aircraft that takes off and lands vertically (it sits on its tail on the landing ...
University of South Florida scientist: Barnacles may help reveal location of lost Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
TAMPA, Fla. (Aug. 23, 2023) – A University of South Florida geoscientist led an international team of researchers to create ...
When rumors take flight
Misinformation pervades U.S. politics. Credit: Photo: Stuart Darsch Misinformation pervades U.S. politics. The outcome of the 2020 presidential election is ...
NASA’s ComPair Balloon Mission readies for flight
A team in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, is preparing to fly a balloon-borne science instrument called ComPair, which will test ...
China to launch “Innovation X Scientific Flight” program, payload open for application worldwide
“Innovation X Scientific Flight” program, a new paradigm for low-cost space science and new technology experiments, was launched on July ...
A butterfly’s first flight inspires a new way to produce force and electricity
The wings of a butterfly are made of chitin, an organic polymer that is the main component of the shells ...
NASA’s ComPair gamma-ray hunting mission prepares for balloon flight
Engineers and scientists have shipped NASA’s ComPair instrument to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, ahead of its scheduled August flight early ...
New fossil flying reptile ‘Elvis’ takes flight
A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur (extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs) was named today by a team of British, ...
Electrical synapses in the neural network of insects found to have unexpected role in controlling flight power
A team of experimental neurobiologists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and theoretical biologists at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has managed ...
ETRI lays the groundwork for convenient and safe drone flight
The lack of a single communication standard among drone makers has made it difficult for information to be shared between ...
Preserving pine forests by understanding beetle flight
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2023 – The mountain pine beetle is one of the main causes of tree mortality in the ...
The bat’s ability to convert energy into muscle power is affected by flight speed
Small bats are bad at converting energy into muscle power. Surprisingly, a new study led by Lund University reveals that ...
First research flight images from innovative balloon-borne telescope
Astronomers have successfully launched a balloon-borne telescope which has begun capturing images of the Universe on its first research flight. ...
Electric motor drive takes off in test flight of passenger hybrid electric plane
Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas achieved a major milestone Feb. 20 with the successful test flight of their ...
Honey bees receive flight instruction and vector source by following dance
In a study published in PNAS, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...
Flight of birds can help provide predictions on turbulence, new study suggests
A new study led by Swansea University has shown how the flight of birds can offer a meteorological insight into ...
How scientist designed a system for pose determination of spacecraft using time-of- flight sensors?
Spacecraft pose determination is aimed at acquiring the relative pose of the active spacecraft like nanosatellites to the target. The ...
Engineers study bird flight
People have been fascinated by bird flight for centuries, but exactly how birds can be so agile in the air ...
Experimental verification on steering flight of honeybee by electrical stimulation
A research paper by scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology verified the steering control effect of honeybee by applying ...
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Pumped for frigid weather: study pinpoints cold adaptations in nervous system of Antarctic octopus
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Men with metastatic prostate cancer live longer thanks to new drugs
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Researchers propose a unified, scalable framework to measure agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
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Gut bacteria found in wild wolves may be key to improving domestic dogs’ health
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Genomic analysis reveals ancient cancer lineages in clams
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Study uncovers reasons Americans did not get booster vaccines