Four years ago we told you about the MetaFly, a remote-control flapping-wing flying model insect made by French startup Bionic Bird (which did previously release a model bionic bird). Well, the ...

A robber fly is one serious looking insect. In this photo by Tom Houser, the big bearded beast reminds me more of an angry buffalo than a bug. Houser photographed the fly at his home in Kemspville … ...

Their idea: Take two-dimensional images of the insect using many, many different vantage points, then infer a three-dimensional model from those two-dimensional images.

The footage is a 3D reconstruction, made up of several X-ray images, and shows a blowfly's flight motor - the anatomy that powers its flight.

Scientists from Google and the Janelia Research Campus in Virginia have published the largest high-resolution map of brain connectivity in any animal, sharing a 3D model that traces 20 million ...

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A team of scientists from Oxford University, Imperial College, and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have used very intense X-rays to film inside an insect as it flies. The footage is a ...