Editorial: There’s no great answer for nuclear waste, but almost anything is better than perching it on the Pacific By The Times Editorial Board Sept. 11, 2017 5 AM PT ...

Dibya Raj Adhikari, George Loubimov, Michael P. Kinzel, Samik Bhattacharya. Effect of wing sweep on a perching maneuver. Physical Review Fluids, 2022; 7 (4) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.044702 ...

Announced this week, a team of Harvard roboticists has taken a major step toward giving robots some of the flight advantages enjoyed by birds and bees by giving them the ability to perch.

Each day around lunch time, Newport Beach resident Elle Raabe stands on the corner of Von Karman Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, wearing her Prada sunglasses and a business suit, looking for a job ...

Flying is an energy-intensive activity. The birds and the bees don’t hover around incessantly like your little sister’s quadcopter. They flit to and fro, perching on branches and leaves while ...

Birdwatchers from across the globe will soon descend on northwest Ohio for the annual Biggest Week in American Birding from May 9-18, coinciding with the peak of spring migration and offering a ...

Perching isn’t a trivial skill, either. It could be vital to create small robots designed for medium and long-term observations. You can’t use a quadcopter to survey an area for longer than 20 ...

A crow grooms while perching on a priority signal sensor on a traffic light at Coolidge Drive and Ranch View Road at UC Santa Cruz. These priority signals, or preemption signals, allow emergency ...

Skeletal plasticity in response to embryonic muscular activity underlies the development and evolution of the perching digit of birds. Scientific Reports, 2015; 5: 9840 DOI: 10.1038/srep09840 ...

Perching fixed-wing UAVs (although not ones that use power lines to recharge) are also being developed by the University of Illinois, EPFL, UC San Diego and AeroVironment.

Echo the Australian shepherd and Everest the golden retriever surprised owner Jaime Simpson when she walked in on them perched on her fridge and kitchen counter.