Tag: flight
How do airplanes fly? An aerospace engineer explains the physics of flight
Craig Merrett, Clarkson University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...
The surprising reason why insects circle lights at night: They lose...
Samuel Fabian, Imperial College London; Jamie Theobald, Florida International University, and Yash Sondhi, University of Florida
It’s an observation...
Why did Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 have a sealed-off emergency exit...
Amy Fraher, Yale University
The aviation industry is still in shock from a near disaster on Jan. 5, 2024,...
The future of flight in a net-zero-carbon world: 9 scenarios, lots...
Candelaria Bergero, University of California, Irvine and Steve Davis, University of California, Irvine
Several major airlines have pledged to...
Electric planes are coming: Short-hop regional flights could be running on...
Gökçin Çınar, University of Michigan
Electric planes might seem futuristic, but they aren’t that far off, at least for...
D.B. Cooper, the changing nature of hijackings and the foundation for...
Janet Bednarek, University of Dayton
Though many Americans may associate airport security with 9/11, it was a wave of...
An entire generation of Americans has no idea how easy air...
Janet Bednarek, University of Dayton
During the mid-1990s I traveled between Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., twice a month...
We used peanuts and a climbing wall to learn how squirrels...
Lucia F. Jacobs, University of California, Berkeley; Nathaniel Hunt, University of Nebraska Omaha, and Robert J. Full, University of California, Berkeley
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
