Who is the beetle that can fold its delicate wings into an origami shape, keeping them safely tucked away as it scampers ...

Despite their relatively cumbersome wings, bats are champions of nocturnal aviation, a feat accomplished through an ingenious bit of aeronautical engineering.

The dream of flying has always fascinated humanity. In evolutionary history, the ability to fly has emerged independently ...

Robotic bat wings could aid in the design of novel flapping aircraft, researchers say. Scientists built a robot that mimics the wing shape and motions of the lesser dog-faced fruit bat (Cynopterus ...

One editor tested the viral "bat-wing" eyeliner hack for hooded eyes to see if it helps her to achieve the perfect winged eyeliner. See the results here.

After a long series of financial problems, the Bat Club is nearing a crisis. Unless it gets immediate, unexpected help from its Alumni Board, the Bat will have to disband permanently, club ...

Bat wings are like hands: meaty, bony and full of joints. A new Brown University study finds that bats take advantage of their flexibility by folding in their wings on the upstroke to save ...

By using the robot, Bahlman and colleagues found that wing folding increases net lift by almost 50 percent–a useful insight into how flapping-wing flight works.

They also use their hindlimbs, back feet and fingers to control the overall shape of the wing and the angle of flight. Bats' wing membranes are able to stretch and recoil with changes in wing fold, ...

An upward moving wing should force the bat down, but the nature of the folding decreases this force by 50 percent. It isn’t just wind tunnel tests that yield knowledge.

Unlike other aerial robots that use whirling rotor blades to fly, the Bat Bot relies on soft, silicone-based wings to glide, swoop and turn.

Researchers have developed a robotic bat wing that is providing valuable new information about dynamics of flapping flight in real bats. From an engineering perspective, the researchers hope the ...