Insects exhibit impressive agility and responsiveness even when faced with low-light conditions. The secret lies in their compound eyes, which are capable of detecting motion with incredible speed and ...

A camera smaller than a fingernail can now see what most high-speed cameras miss. Inspired by the eyes of insects, scientists have created a tiny, powerful device that captures fast-moving scenes in ...

Figure 1. (A) Vision in a fast-eyed insect. Reflected light from swiftly moving objects sequentially stimulates the photoreceptors along the individual optical channels called ommatidia, of which the ...

An award-winning composer came to class and had scientists lend an ear, resulting in music that’s all the buzz. A young treehopper photographed at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory pollinator garden ...

While much insight has been gleaned from how grasshoppers hop, their gliding prowess has mostly been overlooked. Now ...

Have you ever wondered how insects are able to go so far beyond their home and still find their way? The answer to this question is not only relevant to biology but also to making the AI for tiny, ...

Tiny insect-inspired drones could navigate collapsed buildings to find survivors, showing lab-tested flight skills with ...

A new self-assembly platform produces synthetic brochosomes at over 100,000 per second, enabling scalable antireflective, sensing and camouflage materials. (Nanowerk News) When most people see a ...

Shape-morphing, insect-scale robots that feature an origami-inspired design and eight independently actuated degrees of freedom, powered by custom piezoelectric actuators for enhanced mechanical ...