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This Virtual Wingsuit Flight Is The Coolest Thing You’ll See In The Web Today

Chances are that you’re never going to wear a wingsuit and fly through Norway’s fjords. Or any other fjord, mountain or canyon, for that matter. This awesome 360-degree interactive video is perhaps the closest you will ever get to experience it.

January 5, 2011
Science

Amazing World Of Insect-Wing Colour Discovered

A closer look at seemingly drab, transparent insect wings has revealed realms of previously unappreciated colour, visible to the naked eye yet overlooked for centuries.

December 21, 2010
Science

What Do You Call A Fly That Can’t Fly?

It looks terrible. It’s hairy. And it can’t fly. It’s the terrible hairy fly, or to give it its scientific name, Mormotomyia hirsuta. The 1cm-long insect, which breeds in bat faeces, has small eyes, long legs and tiny useless wings.

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