INSECTS FOR EVERYMAN

Who Are the Entrepreneurs: The Elite or Everyman?

We trace the evolving social positions of the people who found new enterprises over the course of industry history. Sociological theory suggests two opposing hypotheses. First, pioneering entrepreneurs are socially prominent individuals or those from related industries while later entrepreneurs are from an increasingly broad range of social positions. Second, the earliest entrepreneurs come fro...

PRIMES Is in P: A Breakthrough for "Everyman", Volume 50, Number 5

“New Method Said to Solve Key Problem in Math” was the headline of a story in the New York Times on August 8, 2002, meaning the proof of the statement primes ∈ P, hitherto a big open problem in algorithmic number theory and theoretical computer science. Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena of the Indian Institute of Technology accomplished the proof through a surprisingly elegant an...

Aerosols for Insects

L .NSECTIGIDES in aerosol form have become, since 1940, an important means of controlling insects. Aerosols had just emerged from the laboratory and were undergoing practical testing when the United States entered the Second World War. They were immediately adopted by the military forces to combat disease-carrying insects, such as the malaria and yellow-fever mosquitoes. Because of accelerated ...

Aquatic Insects: Hemimetabolous Insects – Plecoptera

Design and Fabrication of Ultralight High-Voltage Power Circuits for Flapping-Wing Robotic Insects

Flapping-wing robotic insects are small, highly maneuverable flying robots inspired by biologicalinsects and useful for a wide range of tasks, including exploration, environmental monitoring, searchand rescue, and surveillance. Recently, robotic insects driven by piezoelectric actuators have achievedthe important goal of taking off with external power; however, fully autonomous operation requir...