With all the James Bond theme song-playing and tower-building quadrocopters these days, it's a little hard to get excited about new personal-size automated aerial projects. But how can you not get ...

“The main goal is to understand how the process of sexual selection — which typically favors elaborate traits like the peacock’s train for impressing possible mates, or weapons like antlers to fight ...

In mythology, a griffin is a creature that sports the head and wings of an eagle. In Seville, Spain, where the GRIFFIN project is based, the word is a (somewhat loose) acronym for this mouthful of a ...

Researchers at Stanford University have been looking into exactly how birds can maintain controlled flight by changing the shape of their wings. For their study, they invented a robot called PigeonBot ...

Seán Duke is the Science and Health Editor for Newsweek, based in Dublin, Ireland. He has 25 years of experience as a science journalist, and editor with The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, RTÉ, ...

Have you ever looked at a little bird nestled in a tree and wondered: "How on earth did they land on that tiny branch?" Well wonder no more because two engineers have figured out exactly how and ...

With feet and legs like a peregrine falcon, engineers have created a robot that can perch and carry objects like a bird. Like snowflakes, no two branches are alike. They can differ in size, shape and ...