The researchers, led by Gottfried Sachs of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and Francesco Bonadonna of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), used advanced GPS tracking to ...

Many small unmanned aircraft systems will try to emulate nature to help with increase fuel consumption or mobility. This aircraft is based on the Albatross which in habitats the southern oceans by ...

A new study shows how small seabirds have mastered the art of working smarter not harder when soaring at sea. The new study published today in Science Advances proves it isn't just albatrosses that ...

Shearwater Aerospace has been selected as a subcontractor for DARPA’s Albatross program, which is exploring the use of weather-informed mission planning and real-time sensing of dynamic wind ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (Wed. Nov 30) -- Wandering albatrosses, which are an iconic sight in the Southern Ocean, are highly adapted to long-distance soaring flight. Their wingspan of up to 11 feet is the ...

Albatrosses live in the open ocean and have the world's largest wingspans for dynamic soaring over water.

Albatrosses leverage the energy of the wind to fly with essentially no mechanical cost to themselves, very rarely flapping their wings, and new work offers insight into how exactly they accomplish ...