The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

Raptors such as eagles, hawks and falcons have a reputation for having great vision, and that reputation is well-earned.

Isoprene, a long-overlooked plant compound, may be a powerful natural insect repellent. New research reveals how this chemical deters pests and helps crops like soybeans survive stress. But its use ...

When exposed to a natural austral sky, moths flew in the direction consistent with their seasonal migration—southward in spring, northward in autumn. When researchers rotated the sky projection ...

(WYTV)- This comes to us from a book by Stephen Buchman, “What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees.” Bees are intelligent; they likely feel pain, remember ...

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Polarized skylight pattern is one of the earth's natural traits, which can provide compass cues for some insects' navigation. Decades of behavioral and anatomic studies of the mechanisms that insects ...

ESA started working on the first telescope of the network nine years ago, in 2016. It's 3.3 feet (1 meter) in diameter and comes with a 45 square degrees field of view, with each square degree ...

Two eyes are a typical number for most adult insects. It’s actually a misconception that insects tend to have more than two eyes; this trait is more common in spiders, crabs, and other arthropods.

We all know how impossible it is to swat a fly: its bulging compound eyes spot motion almost anywhere. ESA engineers borrowed that same principle when they designed the Flyeye telescope. A three foot ...

Visual-inertial odometry with low-cost visual and inertial sensors can provide accurate navigation results in GNSS-denied environment. However, the mainstream methods currently suffer from the ...

Their primitive compound eyes lack lenses but function effectively in the deep, dimly lit waters where they typically live. While their relatives—octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish—evolved to reduce or ...