Following successful in-flight tests of a shape-changing wing, two teams have been funded to demonstrate aggressive manoeuvring using fast morphing. Unmanned air vehicles built by Lockheed Martin and ...

Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are hormone-like substances that can have undesirable effects on health. For example, chemicals can increase the risk of breast cancer if they act in a manner similar to the ...

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has revealed further details of its morphing unmanned air vehicle (UAV) development programme, including one that can be launched from a Trident submarine. The morphing ...

The centre is part of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). With the help of microscopy and artificial intelligence, the "E-Morph" test reliably identifies substances that can have ...

NASA has completed the initial flight test phase of a new morphing wing technology, Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE), on a Gulfstream III jet. This innovative technology aims to significantly ...

Face morphing attacks pose a critical security threat to biometric systems by blending features of two individuals into a single synthetic image that can be falsely accepted by facial recognition ...

Two prototypes of a wing that changes shape radically in flight will undergo structural and aerodynamic testing in July and August by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). These ...

A version of this article appears in the September 22 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. From earliest times, humans have watched birds and been inspired to fly. Yet while aircraft designers ...