France is a nation of contradictions, its engineering trends being simultaneously ultra-conservative yet radically inventive to the point of absurdity. The forces of conformity and eccentricity have ...

Inspired by insect flight rather than propellers or jets, French engineers developed a working ornithopter that flapped its wings to generate lift and propulsion. Built to study efficient low speed ...

As most of the normal world is still immersed in end of 2025 festivities, most of the design world has been looking at 2026 for a while. Publishing a magazine is a great way to be projected into the ...

Before I go into my list of movies to look forward to in 2026, I am compelled to say (again) “Sinners” is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best film of 2025. It is hard to describe in one sentence — ...

Offering a brief line of text and several sidebars per spread, Into the Air: An Illustrated Timeline of Flight by Ryan Ann Hunter, illus. by Yan Nascimbene, charts the development of flight from ...