All posts tagged: wings

Where to find Atlanta-style lemon pepper wings in Los Angeles

Where to find Atlanta-style lemon pepper wings in Los Angeles

Published by Sam Flores

As a proud Atlantan, I’ve loved lemon pepper wings my entire life. Zesty and crispy-skinned, they were present every Super Bowl Sunday and Labor Day weekend. When my family of four wanted takeout, it was the one item we could all agree on to order. I learned to like lemon pepper wings as an alternative to buffalo wings, which were way too spicy for me as a child. My taste buds eventually learned to handle the heat, but there’s still something in me that prefers a dry rub lemon pepper wing over anything else. Lemon pepper wings are widely believed to be the invention of J.R. Crickets, an Atlanta-based wing chain that has now expanded to several locations throughout Georgia since opening in 1982. The classic recipe involves wings covered in a blend of lemon zest, pepper and butter, but the regional restaurant is also known for a flavor that’s not explicitly on the menu — “lemon pepper wet.” Sparking curiosity worldwide after being featured on the Emmy award-winning TV series “Atlanta” in 2017, these …

Fossil insect wings reveal a Jurassic world already buzzing with ultrasound communication

Fossil insect wings reveal a Jurassic world already buzzing with ultrasound communication

Published by Jenni Sidey

Fossil wings from insects that lived about 165 million years ago have allowed scientists to reconstruct part of the Middle Jurassic soundscape. Most of the nine species studied likely produced pure-tone calls around 5 to 7 kilohertz, while Sigmaboilus peregrinus appears to have communicated above 20 kilohertz in ultrasound. The discovery suggests ultrasonic animal communication evolved long before bats, possibly because early mammals and other predators listened for insects or because competing species divided the available acoustic space. The forests of the Jurassic are silent to us now. Fossils preserve bones, shells and sometimes remarkably delicate wings, but the calls and songs that once filled those landscapes vanished almost as soon as they were made. A collection of fossilized insect wings is offering an unusual way to bring part of that lost soundscape back. Scientists have reconstructed the likely calls of nine relatives of modern crickets and katydids that lived about 165 million years ago. Some apparently produced low, musical tones similar to calls heard from living insects. One species probably communicated using ultrasound, frequencies …

These furry moths smell with their wings

These furry moths smell with their wings

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. A moth’s wings do much more than help these pollinating insects fly. Their powdery look comes from tiny scales made of sensitive hairs that help moths stay stable in the air, thermoregulate, and taste sweet and bitter molecules. Now, a study recently published in the Journal of Experimental Biology found that in tobacco hawkmoths (Manduca sexta), they can even help the insects smell.  A team of scientists in Germany initially suspected that moth wings may be able to detect certain aromas based on earlier research.  “The tobacco hawkmoth was recently found to have receptor proteins in its wings that could detect different smells and tastes,” study co-author Sonja Bisch-Knaden, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, explained in a statement.  …

Bird-inspired robot swims, plunges, and flies using flapping wings

Bird-inspired robot swims, plunges, and flies using flapping wings

Published by Jenni Sidey

A lightweight robot modeled on diving birds can swim underwater, break through the surface, and continue flying without using feet or propellers. The feat exposes a difficult mechanical compromise between movement in dense water and thin air. Engineers at MIT and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, built the flapping-wing aerial-aquatic vehicle, or FAAV, to explore how animals such as puffins, petrels, gulls, and loons move through both environments. The untethered robot weighs about 250 grams and resembles a small bird. It has a slender waterproof body, two flexible membrane wings, a battery-powered motor, and a steerable tail. Researchers can replace the wings and tail to test different dimensions and mechanical properties. Raphael Zufferey, left, and Moritz Hüsser work on their robot design. (CREDIT: John Freidah) Balanced design Experiments in tanks, a wind tunnel, indoor flight spaces, and Lake Geneva showed that one carefully balanced design could fly, swim, plunge into water, and launch back into the air. The results will appear in the journal Science. The work provides a robotic test bed for questions that are …

WNBA Regular-Season Record Crowd of 20,996 Watches Wings Beat Tempo in Montreal

WNBA Regular-Season Record Crowd of 20,996 Watches Wings Beat Tempo in Montreal

Published by Sam Flores

MONTREAL (AP) — Paige Bueckers scored 34 points and the Dallas Wings beat the expansion Toronto Tempo 108-95 on Friday night in front of a WNBA regular-season record crowd of 20,996 at Bell Centre. The game broke the regular-season mark of 20,711 set in Washington on Sept. 19, 2024, against Indiana. The league’s two largest crowds — both 22,076 — came in Detroit in the 2003 and 2007 WNBA Finals. “Being the only team in Canada, it’s a responsibility for us and how cool is that,” Tempo coach Sandy Brondello said. “We get to be seen all over Canada. We want to make sure we can come out tonight and celebrate the WNBA and celebrate the Tempo with our new fans.” Toronto will face New York in Montreal on Sunday. The Tempo also will play two games in Vancouver, British Columbia. “I said to the team today what a unique opportunity this is. We’re creating firsts. We say we’re Canada’s team so we’re taking the show on the road,” Brondello said. “I always say, a …

Order Buffalo Wild Wings on Grubhub for a chance to win a free Lovesac couch

Order Buffalo Wild Wings on Grubhub for a chance to win a free Lovesac couch

Published by skeptic

TL;DR: This World Cup promotion gives fans a chance to win a Lovesac couch with their Buffalo Wild Wings order. Starting July 10, order $35 or more through Grubhub, add the “Side of Couch,” and you could be one of 26 winners receiving a new Lovesac Sactional before the Final. For the first time, Lovesac, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Grubhub are teaming up to let fans add a “Side of Couch” to their Grubhub order. While the couch itself won’t arrive with your wings, adding “Side of Couch” gives you a chance to win a brand-new Lovesac couch before the World Cup Final. The idea is simple: spend $35 or more on Buffalo Wild Wings through Grubhub, add the “Side of Couch,” and you could be watching the Final from a brand-new couch. How to enter the Lovesac World Cup couch giveaway Entering is simple, but you’ll need to order during the limited-time promotion window. The promotion begins on July 10 at 2 p.m. ET or 11 a.m. PT — one hour before kickoff in …

In VR flight, people’s brains learned to treat wings like limbs

In VR flight, people’s brains learned to treat wings like limbs

Published by skeptic

abstract: Something that exists as an idea or thought but not concrete or tangible (touchable) in the real world. Beauty, love and memory are abstractions; cars, trees and water are concrete and tangible. cognitive: A term that relates to mental activities, such as thinking, learning, remembering and solving puzzles. fiction: (adj. fictional) An idea or a story that is made-up, not a depiction of real events. limb: (in physiology) An arm or leg. motor: A device that converts electricity into mechanical motion. (in biology) A term referring to movement. neuroscientist: Someone who studies the structure or function of the brain and other parts of the nervous system. virtual: Being almost like something. An object or concept that is virtually real would be almost true or real — but not quite. The term often is used to refer to something that has been modeled by (or accomplished by) a computer using numbers, not by using real-world parts. So a virtual motor would be one that could be seen on a computer screen and tested by computer programming …

DARPA’s X-Plane Designed To Maneuver With Bursts Of Air Gets New Wings Attached

DARPA’s X-Plane Designed To Maneuver With Bursts Of Air Gets New Wings Attached

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Chris Young via Interesting Engineering, Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has begun installing the wings on the X-65, an experimental drone developed under DARPA’s Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. Technicians mounting the wings onto the X-65 experimental drone.Aurora Flight Sciences / X The installation brings DARPA and Aurora a step closer to flying the unconventional uncrewed aircraft, which was designed to test flight control using only bursts of pressurized air instead of conventional moving surfaces. The X-65’s active flow control The X-65’s key innovation lies in its active flow control (AFC) system. Fourteen AFC effectors embedded across the aircraft’s lifting surfaces use jets of high-pressure air to manage roll, pitch, and yaw. This will either replace or supplement traditional flaps and rudders. The X-65 incorporates both systems to establish performance baselines before transitioning to AFC-only operation. Essentially, it will allow researchers to flight test the technology while minimizing risk. “The X-65 conventional surfaces are like training wheels to help us understand how AFC can be used in place of …

The unexpected lessons of Paul McCartney’s Wings era

The unexpected lessons of Paul McCartney’s Wings era

Published by Sam Flores

50 years ago, Paul McCartney went on tour in the United States with his band Wings. It was the first time he played live since The Beatles’ last tour in 1966. 2026 has become the year of Wings, with a wave of new historical and archival celebration around Sir Paul’s post-Beatles band. There’s a documentary (“Man On The Run”), a 550-page oral history (“Wings: The Story of a Band On The Run”), and the first major museum exhibit on Wings at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The end result of all of the above is both practical and aspirational: the total effort rounds up all of the loose ends around this era while there are still enough people around to talk about it, and officially induct Wings into McCartney’s larger legacy. It’s charming to observe within these different archival efforts just how very much Paul McCartney wanted his post-Beatles musical projects to be a band. He didn’t want to be “The Cute Ex-Beatle And Some Other Guys.” He wanted it to be a …

Ancient Velociraptor cousin glided on four wings and hunted birds

Ancient Velociraptor cousin glided on four wings and hunted birds

Published by Jenni Sidey

A fossil bed in northwestern China has been telling a strange story for years. Scattered through its rocks are the remains of more than 100 prehistoric birds, some preserved as partial skeletons, others broken into dense clusters of crushed bones that resemble the pellets modern owls cough up after feeding. Those shattered remains suggested that something larger was hunting the birds. Yet despite decades of work at the site, no one had found the likely culprit. Now that may have changed. In a paper published in the Annals of Carnegie Museum, researchers describe a new species of dinosaur from the Changma Basin, a feathered predator called Jian changmaensis. The animal belonged to the dromaeosaurs, a group of bird-like theropod dinosaurs that included Velociraptor, and the team says it is the best candidate yet for the missing predator in this bird-rich fossil bed. Location of the type locality of Jian changmaensis, gen. et sp. nov., in the Changma Basin of northwestern Gansu Province, China. (CREDIT: Annals of Carnegie Museum) “Scientists have found these weird, broken-up clusters …