It’s not very common that a robot the size of a paper clip is able to do ten flips in eleven seconds and keep on course within five centimeters, says Markus Waibel of Waibel Robotics in Zurich. But ...

Insect flight demands a finely tuned balance between heat production, heat loss and energy expenditure. Unlike larger vertebrates, many insects rely on a combination of behavioural strategies, ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...

Ch. 1. Flight and the Pterygote Insecta -- Ch. 2. Morphology of the Flight Apparatus -- Ch. 3. Kinematics and Aerodynamics of Flight -- Ch. 4. Energetics and Flight Physiology -- Ch. 5. Stability, ...