Study suggests seabirds’ black wings allow them to fly longer

If you were a bird, chances are that you’d want to minimize the number of times you had to land and rest on the potentially treacherous ocean. A new study now suggests that multiple seabird species have thus evolved dark-colored wings, in order to stay… Continue reading Study suggests seabirds’ black wings allow them to fly longer

Dynamic, reprogrammable material goes hard under light and soft in the dark

Materials that change their properties in response to different environmental triggers promise all kinds of versatility for all kinds of applications, and an international team of scientists has just come up with a particularly inventive one…. Continue reading Dynamic, reprogrammable material goes hard under light and soft in the dark