Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are hormone-like substances that can have undesirable effects on health. For example, chemicals can increase the risk of breast cancer if they act in a manner similar to the ...

In 2014 and 2015, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, a strange-looking twin-boom aircraft ...

Following successful in-flight tests of a shape-changing wing, two teams have been funded to demonstrate aggressive manoeuvring using fast morphing. Unmanned air vehicles built by Lockheed Martin and ...

A prototype vehicle that can transition from rotary-wing to fixed-wing mode is to be test flown in 2009 under Spain's Helicopter Adaptive Aircraft (HADA) project, part of the Platino national unmanned ...

A version of this article appears in the September 22 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. From earliest times, humans have watched birds and been inspired to fly. Yet while aircraft designers ...

Two prototypes of a wing that changes shape radically in flight will undergo structural and aerodynamic testing in July and August by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). These ...

German Aerospace Center engineers have tested flap-less morphing wings on the Proteus aircraft, advancing Hyperelastic Trailing Edge Morphing technology. The system uses fiber-reinforced composites ...