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B.J. Balakumar's robotic hummingbird wing isn't as pretty as the real thing. It lacks jewel-like colors and the iridescent glint of hummingbird feathers. But what the unadorned metal wing does have is ...

There’s no mistaking the dizzying display of a hummingbird’s wings as it zips around from flower to flower looking for nectar ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Temperatures are trending up this time of year, and so are the hummingbirds. The colorful and speedy birds are migrating north throughout the United States and several reported ...

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 ...

Their diminutive wings fluttering 15 to 80 times a second, hummingbirds are homing in on the Lower Hudson Valley as they fly north for the spring. Some are already here. A sighting of a ruby-throated ...