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Hind wings help butterflies make swift turns to evade predators, study finds
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New tires allow race cars to take tight turns at high speeds. Hind wings give moths and butterflies similar advantages: They are not necessary for basic flight but help these creatures take tight turns to ...
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Lizards pull a wheelie
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Jun 13, 2008 |
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Why bother running on hind legs when the four you've been given work perfectly well? This is the question that puzzles Christofer Clemente. For birds and primates, there's a perfectly good answer: birds have converted their ...
Natural solar collectors on butterfly wings inspire more powerful solar cells
Feb 05, 2009 |
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The discovery that butterfly wings have scales that act as tiny solar collectors has led scientists in China and Japan to design a more efficient solar cell that could be used for powering homes, businesses, ...
Four, three, two, one... pterosaurs have lift off
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly — and wrongly — lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures flew, they were birdlike ...
Straighten up and fly right: Moths benefit more from flexible wings than rigid (w/ Videos)
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Most scientists who create models trying to understand the mechanics and aerodynamics of insect flight have assumed that insect wings are relatively rigid as they flap.
Shuttle, station crews begin girder work
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The astronauts aboard the linked space shuttle and space station began their high-priority girder work Wednesday, a two-day job that will culminate with the installation of two new solar wings at ...
Stem cells improve damaged spines in mice
Feb 05, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at Keio University has succeeded in improving spinal cord damage in mice by transplanting into them neural stem cells produced with human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, they said.
Astronauts successfully install solar wings (Update)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Spacewalking astronauts installed the last set of solar wings at the international space station Thursday, accomplishing the top job of shuttle Discovery's mission. Steven Swanson and Richard Arnold ...
Space station's new solar wings open easily (Update 2)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Astronauts successfully unfurled the newly installed solar wings at the international space station Friday, a nerve-racking procedure that went exceedingly well and brought the orbiting outpost to ...
Sexy or repulsive? Butterfly wings can be both to mates and predators
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Butterflies seem able to both attract mates and ward off predators using different sides of their wings, according to new research by Yale University biologists.
Butterfly wings may help scientists better understand photonic crystals
Sep 04, 2008 |
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As technology moves forward, many scientists are looking to nature to find inspiration for the development of advanced materials that can have a variety of practical applications.
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