But could it use some further insect-inspired improvement ... one based on the geometric cells most recognizable in dragonfly wings and turtle shells. In mathematics, the optimized version ...

Now, researchers in the US have examined if males of dragonfly species that produce sexual signals in the form of dark coloration on their wings are more resistant to heat. They published their ...

New research indicates some of the architecture’s oldest and most reliable designs can be built even better thanks to insect inspiration ... patterns seen in dragonfly wings.

A once-rare type of dragonfly may have been aided by climate change, the Broads Authority has said. The Norfolk Hawker went extinct from the Cambridgeshire Fens in 1893 and, prior to 2013 ...

After discovering bacteria-killing properties of the wings of insects such as cicadas and ... The nanopillars on the surface of a dragonfly wing (magnified 20,000 times). Source: RMIT University ...

About the first childhood love of fifth-grader Peka for his classmate Allochka Nikolskaya - the little swan figure skater from Tchaikovsky's ballet with dragonfly wings, and about the first ...

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Published in Thin-Walled Structures, the study relied on numerical analysis and physical experiments, and led its authors to propose an unprecedented rib pattern inspired by dragonfly wings ...

Zhipeng Lou [Opens in a new window], Flying insects exhibit remarkable capabilities in coordinating their olfactory sensory system and flapping wings during odour plume-tracking flights. While ...

Watching their alert, tireless sorties was like stopping time—it seemed all motion was concentrated in the blur of their wings and the dart of ... So, a pond with dragonfly nymphs is a clean one. When ...

Smaller, lighter and sharper than Buffalo wings, this interpretation of a classic has faded away over time. But you can make it at home. By Eric Kim Reporting from Atlanta There was a time in Hank ...