Agile Flight for a Tiny, Winged Robot (5 of 5)
A 360-degree spin-around view of the robotic fly is presented. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the 3 May 2013 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Kevin Y. Ma at ...
Agile Flight for a Tiny, Winged Robot (4 of 5)
This is a close-up view of a hovering robotic fly. Playback is at 0.25x speed. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the 3 May 2013 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by ...
Agile Flight for a Tiny, Winged Robot (3 of 5)
This video shows a robotic fly hovering for 7 seconds during a flight experiment. A US quarter is shown for scale. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the 3 May 2013 issue of Science...
A Dynamic Nectar Mop
Cally Harper of Brown University explains how the bats she studied have evolved to lap up extra nectar using blood-filled "hairs" on their tongues. She also discusses how they could inspire new ...
NASA Sees a Circular Coronal Mass Ejection
A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1, 2013, in a gigantic rolling wave. CMEs can shoot over a billion tons of particles into space at over a million ...
Summer Sees A Spike In Chemical Injuries In Kids (2 of 3)
A new study from Nationwide Children's Hospital shows that more than 100,000 injuries were reported in children due to hydrocarbons between 2000-2009. Hydrocarbons are chemicals that are stored as ...