It’s no surprise then that the designers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are keen to find strategies for finding and exploiting thermals. Glider pilots already have a simple set of rules developed ...

Researchers shed light on the way Quetzalcoatlus would have flown, finding that the dinosaur's flying dynamics were actually very different to how it has been depicted in popular culture. One of the ...

Migratory birds often use warm, rising atmospheric currents to gain height with little energy expenditure when flying over long distances. It's a behavior known as thermal soaring that requires ...

Migratory birds often use warm, rising atmospheric currents to gain height with little energy expenditure when flying over long distances. It's a behavior known as thermal soaring that requires ...