Each year, thousands of hobbyists and educators across North America collect monarch eggs or caterpillars from the wild to raise indoors and patiently wait for butterflies to emerge. Raising monarch butterflies indoors has ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 27, 2021
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Altering the altitudes of less than 2% of flights could reduce contrail-linked climate change by 59%, says a new Imperial study.
Environment
Feb 12, 2020
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Lockheed Martin today announced that it has successfully demonstrated a portable, ground-based military laser system in a series of tests against representative airborne targets. Lockheed Martin developed the Area Defense ...
Engineering
Nov 28, 2012
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I zipped up the flak jacket, put on an Army helmet and snapped a pair of goggles over my eyes.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 28, 2011
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Monarch butterflies purchased from a commercial breeder did not fly in a southward direction, even in offspring raised outdoors, in a new study conducted by scientists at the University of Chicago. Wild-caught monarchs bred ...
Evolution
Jun 24, 2019
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(Phys.org) —Flying has always fascinated humans, probably because we are so relentlessly Earthbound. One of the things that interests researchers who study flight is the question of how animals that do it can generate the ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2013
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Researchers have developed sophisticated numerical simulations of a butterfly's forward flight.
Mathematics
Mar 25, 2013
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Unlike humans, bees have a dorsal visual field that enables them to avoid obstacles above their heads. Until now, it was not known whether this helped them to control their flight speed. Recent research by French biorobotics ...
Plants & Animals
May 16, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of flight simulators will attempt to make air traffic safer.
Engineering
Dec 8, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Life aboard the International Space Station is hard work. Crewmembers have a multiplicity of complex tasks, potentially involving thousands of tools, components and other items. But ESA astronaut Frank De ...
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2009
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