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 ...

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In the 1940s, it looked like flying wings would dominate the skies - faster, lighter, and more efficient than anything before ...

The Horten brothers chased drag reduction to its limit, building flying wings that actually flew and then pitching the Ho 18 as a long-range jet bomber aimed at targets in North America. This episode ...