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The Butterfly’s Wing

The wings of a butterfly are so fragile that even the weight of specks of dust or drops of moisture could make flying difficult. Nevertheless, the wings stay clean and dry. What is the butterfly’s secret?

TIV Community in UK criticizes Nigerian Government over Farmers Crisis

Members of Tiv Community in the United Kingdom criticizes the federal government of the famers and herdsmen clashes in Benue State.

Federal Government Plans ICT park, Exhibition Centre in Abuja

Adebayo-Shittu, Communications Minister The Federal Government of Nigeria Plans to build a national ICT park and exhibition centre in Abuja soon, as disclosed bu Adebayo-Shittu, The Minister of Communications. This is in preparation for the 4 th  Industrial Revolution, which is predicted to happen globally in the near future.

The Landing Strategy of the Honeybee

Honeybees can safely land at virtually any angle without problems. How do they do it? A safe landing requires that the honeybee reduce its approach speed to nearly zero before contact. One logical way to do this would be to measure two factors —flight speed and the distance to the target— and then reduce speed accordingly. However, that method would be difficult for most insects because they have close-set, fixed-focus eyes that cannot directly measure distance.