A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...

At the end of just about every commercial airliner’s wings is an important piece of technology that can be easy to miss. The small upturned tips of each wing are called winglets, and although they ...

Birds of a feather may flock together, but the feathers of birds differ altogether. New research from an international team led by USC scientists set out to learn how feathers developed and helped ...

The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to inspire new designs and technologies Ian Rose At the end of just about every ...