The Robotic Bat Wing That Broke During Testing Ended Up Revealing Something Remarkable About Real Bats ...

The bats use the way the sun's light is scattered in the atmosphere at sunset to calibrate their internal magnetic compass, which helps them to fly in the right direction, a new study has shown.

Brown University engineers and biologists have joined forces to record the fine details of wing and body movement in bat flight -- together with the patterns of air movement that generate lift.

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: Innervation pattern of bat wing muscles. The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 3: ...