Published on: 2025-11-01 07:44:17
On a warm summer morning at Princeton University, aerospace engineer Aimy Wissa was at the university helipad, preparing to fly a remote-controlled plane. But this wasn’t just any model aircraft. Across the top of its wings, Wissa and her team had carefully attached three rows of thin, flexible plastic flaps, hinged with tape. Guided by a mini flight computer once up in the air, the 1.5-meter-wide aircraft repeatedly performed a test maneuver—gradually pitching its nose up until it lost lift an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-01 22:44:17
On a warm summer morning at Princeton University, aerospace engineer Aimy Wissa was at the university helipad, preparing to fly a remote-controlled plane. But this wasn’t just any model aircraft. Across the top of its wings, Wissa and her team had carefully attached three rows of thin, flexible plastic flaps, hinged with tape. Guided by a mini flight computer once up in the air, the 1.5-meter-wide aircraft repeatedly performed a test maneuver—gradually pitching its nose up until it lost lift an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-14 10:20:56
Found in the forests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Eastern Australia, birds of paradise are famous for flashy feathers and unusually shaped ornaments, which set the standard for haute couture among birds. Many use these feathers for flamboyant mating displays in which they shape-shift into otherworldly forms. As if this didn’t attract enough attention, we’ve now learned that they also glow in the dark. Biofluorescent organisms are everywhere, from mushrooms to fish to reptiles and amphib
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