A flock of birds soars quietly over a city skyline. They seem ordinary—perhaps magpies or gulls—but a closer look reveals something uncanny. Their wings flap with precision, their formation is too ...

Above Missouri's wetlands, a drone quietly hums above flocks of migratory water birds, its camera capturing the ripples of movement below. With this technology, University of Missouri researchers are ...

Next time you look up at the sky at a flock of birds, pay close attention. They might not be what you think they are. Scientists at New Mexico Tech are using birds preserved by taxidermy and turning ...

New Mexico professor Dr. Mostafa Hassanalian has devised a way to disguise an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) – popularly known as a drone – inside a stuffed pheasant or pigeon to better study the ...

While his taxidermied bird drones may have gone global, it's the prospects of going interplanetary that drive Dr. Mostafa Hassanalian’s research. The New Mexico Tech Associate professor has been ...

A bird’s nest incorporating fiber optic cable is a striking sign of how much debris from fiber-guided FPVs now litters the landscape of Ukraine. Other images show fields glittering with fibers like ...

Throughout evolution, the concept of powered flight has evolved and refined itself multiple times across both dinosaurs (birds), mammals (bats) and insects. So why is it that our human-made flying ...

Ukraine’s legendary ‘Birds of Magyar’ is one of the most successful drone units of all time. Under its charismatic commander Robert Brovdi, callsign Magyar ( ‘Madyar’ in Ukrainian, meaning Hungarian), ...

The government announced a raft of aviation safety measures after a Jeju Air crash late last year that killed 179 people, including upgrading airport infrastructure. By Jin Yu Young Reporting from ...