All Articles Tagged As: insects

Acute artificial compound eyes (5/30/2008)

Researchers around the world are working on ultra-thin imaging systems based on the insect eye ...> Full Article

The bombardier beetle, power venom and spray technologies (4/6/2008)

The bombardier beetle is inspiring designers of engines, drug-delivery devices and fire extinguishers to improve spray technologies ...> Full Article

Sky's the limit for bee brain power (3/9/2008)

Researchers studying honeybee brain for clues on how they learn and process smells ...> Full Article

Birds, bats and insects hold secrets for aerospace engineers (2/5/2008)

Natural flyers like birds, bats and insects outperform man-made aircraft in aerobatics and efficiency. University of Michigan engineers are studying these animals as a step toward designing flapping-wing planes with wingspans smaller than a deck of playing cards. ...> Full Article

Ants, of all things, could hold key to future Lake Tahoe clarity efforts (11/16/2007)

Ants are often considered nuisances, pests that are to be quickly eradicated and forgotten. ...> Full Article

From moths and cicadas come improvements to solar cells (10/24/2007)

Designing better solar cells might seem a question of electronics or chemistry, but for one University of Florida engineer, it starts with bugs. ...> Full Article

Engineers learn from the beetles (9/20/2007)

An amazing insect, which sprays its predators with toxic steam, has inspired research into a new generation of technology at the University of Leeds. ...> Full Article

Using Insects To Solve Crimes (7/13/2007)

Insects make up more than half of the known animal species on our planet and they can be found in all kinds of habitat and feed on all kinds of nutrients. They can even be used in evidence in court cases. So we are talking about forensic entomology. ...> Full Article