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 ...

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Dragonflies are not just stunning to look at with their iridescent wings and agile flight ... Dragonflies consume a variety ...

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 ...

The white stuff that engulfs these flies is a fungus called Entomophthora muscae — Entomophthora translates to “ destroyer of insects .” It’s an obligate pathogen, entirely dependent on its host, that ...

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

They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical ...

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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 ...