Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay ...
Learn to tie the Kaufman Stone, a proven stonefly nymph pattern created by Pacific Northwest fly tier Randall Kaufman in 1973 ...
Princeton engineers investigated the secret to grasshoppers' efficient gliding, inspiring a new approach for robotic flight.
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Which animals perceive time the fastest?

These insects are the absolute champions of fast time perception, processing changes 300 times per second compared to humans ...
As winter creeps in it often means a drop in opportunity for fly fishermen. That depends on where you live, of course, but for many of us, river time becomes vise time. If you’re new to fly tying, ...
It’s rare that a single fly pattern can work every day and in every situation on a western trout stream, but I’d argue that Rim Chung’s RS2 Emerger comes pretty darn close. Rim’s personally tied RS2s ...
Editor’s Note: There will be spoilers for volume 6 of The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor manga below. When we first met Hadis in The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor manga, Jill ...
It’s never too early to prepare your winter fly box. Here are some of our don’t-leave-home-without fly patterns for the coming season: Akin to Charlie Craven’s Two-Bit Hooker, this Dream Cast pattern ...
Dragonflies and damselflies may look alike, but these expert hunters have distinct strategies. Dragonflies rule the open skies, while damselflies hover like tiny helicopters through dense vegetation.
What has no brain, no nervous system, and not even nerves, yet acts as if it has reflexes? The answer is a Venus fly trap. This famous carnivorous plant captures insects and other small animals – and ...
One of these caught fish, while the others didn't / Photo by Ken Baldwin Prime hopper season runs from late summer into early fall. When warm water and low flows slow the regular aquatic insect ...
Roger Santer has received funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund delivered through the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and distributed via the Centre for International Development ...