Water striders are fascinating to watch, as they scoot across the water while supported by surface tension. Scientists have now built a tiny robotic version of the insect, which utilizes a ...

Midleg fans act as flexible “leaky paddles,” generating thrust even with water flowing through. Hydrophobic leg hairs exploit surface tension, allowing insects to push without sinking. Different ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be ...

The diversity of water strider species apparently developed as early as the Cretaceous period, much earlier than previously thought. SNSB researchers have succeeded in clarifying the phylogenetic ...

Water striders are tiny insects that have a surprising ability to survive impacts with raindrops dozens of times heavier than they are. Slow-motion videos of them getting smashed by water have ...

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A collaborative team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Ajou University in South Korea has revealed that the unique fan-like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Midleg fans act as flexible “leaky paddles,” generating thrust even with water flowing through. Hydrophobic leg hairs exploit ...

Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider may be the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created. Such miniature robots could someday be used for ...