There’s nothing necessarily limiting this design to oceans either. Qing said a similar flapping wing approach could also potentially be applied to robots operating in the land and in the air.

Its four wings make it steady in high winds that would defeat existing miniature spy drones. Known as Skeeter, the secretive project has cracked the challenge of using flapping wings to power a drone.

Another year is coming to a close, and, just like last year, scientists have made an amazing number of dinosaur discoveries.

Blériot first ventured into aeronautical design between 1900 and 1902 when he built a series of model "ornithopters"—aircraft propelled by flapping wings—that were powered by carbon-dioxide ...

The pterosaurs or flying reptiles. SNSB scientists have now identified a new species that shows that the origin of the most ...