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Fluid dynamics and control of insect flight

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Insects have mastered flight to a degree that scientists are only now starting to comprehend. Itai Cohen and colleagues discuss some of the outstanding challenges and opportunities for studying this fascinating and beautiful behaviour.

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Fig. 1: Aerodynamic vortex pattern shed by a flying fruit fly.

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  1. Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Itai Cohen & Samuel C. Whitehead

  2. The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Tsevi Beatus

  3. Department of Neurobiology, The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Tsevi Beatus

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Cohen, I., Whitehead, S.C. & Beatus, T. Fluid dynamics and control of insect flight. Nat Rev Phys 1, 638–639 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-019-0114-7

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