A Purdue University aerospace researcher helped shape plans to install a new experiment currently on the space shuttle Discovery to collect data for controlling deadly friction and heating in the ...

Wind-tunnel experiments by Lund University reveal migrant Thrush Nightingales achieve peak energy conversion efficiency when flying at intermediate speeds of about 7-8 m/s, with efficiency falling at ...

Research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology has shown that flying fish are every bit as good at gliding as birds. The fish are able glide for more than 40 seconds, covering distances of ...

The video file has four sections showing how topography and erosion rates evolve through time in the experiment. Plan-view digital elevation of the crater model (upper left) shows the crater interior ...