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KATHLEEN, Ga., June 23 (UPI) --A Georgia man used a GoPro camera top capture super slow-motion footage of a hummingbird that shows the movements of the avian's wings. Greg Hogan posted a video to ...

PORTLAND — Not much bigger than a honey bee, the tiny hummingbird is able to hover gently over a flower because it uses some of the same wing motion as an insect — but not as much as previously ...

When a fiery throated hummingbird approaches a flower to feed, its wings are beating at nearly 100 times per second. To the naked eye, its wings are moving so fast ...

Using a novel modeling method, a team of researchers gained new insights into how hummingbirds produce wing movement, which could lead to design improvements in flying robots. Hummingbirds occupy a ...

Hummingbirds are unique among birds for numerous reasons, and that also includes their backward flying capability. Like ...

New modeling from Vanderbilt and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill gives a 3-D breakdown of how a hummingbird's wings work. The method by which the birds move has eluded scientists for some ...

Over at TACC, Jorge Salazar writes that a researcher at Vanderbilt University is using the Lonestar supercomputer to understand how hummingbirds hover. Using the derived force data, scientists can ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The hummingbirds are back! Who among us has not joyfully exclaimed when the ...

Hummingbirds occupy a unique place in nature: They fly like insects but have the musculoskeletal system of birds. According to Bo Cheng, the Kenneth K. and Olivia J. Kuo Early Career Associate ...