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Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is a hybrid of two other swallowtails, scientists find

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago, a rarity in the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientist develops sterile variety of invasive plant

Professor Yi Li's Laboratory in the University of Connecticut's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources has developed a seedless variety of the popular ornamental shrub Euonymus alatus, also called 'burning bush,' that r ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Supergene' is key to copycat butterflies

Since Charles Darwin, biologists have pondered the mystery of "mimicry butterflies", which survive by copying the wing patterns of other butterflies that taste horrible to their predators, birds.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Tiny flying machines inspired by nature will revolutionize surveillance work

Tiny aerial vehicles are being developed with innovative flapping wings based on those of real-life insects.

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Video: Festo's Smartbird robot featured at TED conference

(PhysOrg.com) -- Robotics company, Festo, showed off the near four-month old creation, Smartbird robot, at the 2011 TEDGlobal Conference in Edinburgh. ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 weblog

An eye gene colors butterfly wings red

Red may mean STOP or I LOVE YOU! A red splash on a toxic butterfly's wing screams DON'T EAT ME! In nature, one toxic butterfly species may mimic the wing pattern of another toxic species in the area. By ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The wonders of graphene on display

Graphene, discovered in 2004 at The University of Manchester by Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov, is one of the world's most versatile materials, and is already being used in such varied ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Austrian company debuts revolutionary wingless aircraft

(PhysOrg.com) -- A firm from Austria, Austrian Innovative Aeronautical Technology (IAT21) has unveiled a new type of aircraft that flies without wings or rotors, at the Paris Air Show. Though not actually ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (38) | comments 54 | with audio podcast report

Neuroscientist shows bats feel their way through the air using tiny hair sensors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Susanne Sterbing-D'Angelo, has shown, along with her colleagues from the University of Maryland, that bats use tiny hairs on their wings to feel the air around them as they fly, which allows ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Trying out carbon to treat toxic sediment

On the surface, Canal Creek looks like a postcard Chesapeake Bay tributary, with red-winged blackbirds swooping over the tidal marsh lining its banks.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japanese Ministry of Self-Defense shows off a flying sphere robot (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working with the Japanese Ministry of Self-Defense have created what they claim is the worlds first completely spherical flying robot. The robot, which has roughly the same dimensions ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 23 | with audio podcast weblog

Comet-chasing probe goes into hibernation in 10-year trek

A billion-euro (1.47-billion-dollar) space probe was placed in hibernation on Wednesday until 2014, when it will be woken for a deep-space rendezvous with a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microstructure-induced biomechanical responses of dragonfly wing veins

Wang's research team discovered the sandwich microstructure of dragonfly wing veins1 and recently revealed the organic junction between these longitudinal veins and membranes of the dragonfly wing2. Based on observed mic ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Copper butterfly folds wings to avoid unwanted male advances

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a move that females of any species would likely recognize, the small copper female butterfly has evolved a strategy of dissuading amorous males that is both effective and energy conserving; ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Noise research to combat 'wind turbine syndrome'

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Adelaide acoustics researchers are investigating the causes of wind turbine noise with the aim of making them quieter and solving 'wind turbine syndrome'.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast