A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from ... as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree ...

In 1870, a German anatomist named Karl Gegenbaur was the first person to theorize that abdominal gills on water insects like mayflies eventually developed into wings. For the next 150 years ...

It sounds like a just-so story—“How the Insect Got its Wings”—but it’s really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and competing theories of insect wing evolution have ...

Modern insects are versatile wing conversationalists. Crickets can scrape a leg against a wing or rub two wings together. Some grasshoppers beat their wings like castanets; others crackle and snap ...

Engineers have designed a robot with flapping wings, which can perform ... more akin to bats and insects than robots. The robot can tumble through a 90-degree flip and recover to a stable glide ...

Under the microscope, these teeny-tiny insects reveal fine detail, particularly their long, skinny wings, which terminate ... Stephanie received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the ...

There are many aspects of insect biology, especially their flight, that remain a mystery for scientists. One is simply how they move their wings. The insect wing hinge is a specialized joint that ...

Researchers are flying the idea that insect wings could act as a model for making self-cleaning, frictionless, and superhydrophobic materials. Researchers in Australia and the UK are flying the ...

In the paper, the team show how a pair of LAZA-powered flapping wings can provide more power compared with insect muscle of the same weight, enough to fly a robot across a room at 18 body lengths ...