A new study has revealed how vultures use their very own social networks to work out the best way to take advantage of thermal updrafts to help them fly vast distances. The research, carried out by a ...

Microsoft wants to build autonomous tech for aircraft that require little to no power to fly. It just completed tests in the Nevada desert of gliders equipped with self-guidance systems that help them ...

Giant condors can travel more than 100 miles without flapping their wings and instead spend most of their time gliding on thermal updrafts, new research shows. UK biologists deployed logging devices ...

U of T aviation expert Philippe Lavoie envisions drones that, like birds, could coast on thermal updrafts (photo by Neil Ta) Studying how gulls use wing shape to soar long distances and control their ...

Birds have long inspired humans to create their own ways to fly. We know that soaring bird species that migrate long distances use thermal updrafts to stay in the air without using up energy flapping ...