A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...
This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. Settled into a comfortable married life in Didsbury, then a leafy part of Manchester, Emily ...
Why are some songbirds so brightly colored? A new study finds that a hidden layer of black and white feathers help their colors pop. Have you ever looked at a bird and wondered, how can it be so red ...