Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may hardly feel a raindrop, but for some tiny insects, one drop can have an intense impact. Mendowong Photography/Moment via ...

Water striders are fascinating little monsters. These insects, famous for their ability to walk on water, have always captivated me. This video taught me that they're carnivorous, and catch their prey ...

Water striders live on the water surface and their leg length ranges from several to over 100 millimeters (Fig. 1,2). It is well known that they use their long hydrophobic legs and support their ...

Water striders are a common sight on ponds, vernal pools and puddles. During clear summer days, these insects seem to walk on water, a feat they accomplish through a combination of long legs that ...

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 ...

Ko Je-sung, a professor of Ajou University, shows a miniature robot called Rhagobot, modeled after the movement of Rhagovelia, a genus of water strider insects, during a press conference at the ...

When we think about creatures skimming across water, images of birds landing or frogs leaping come to mind. But some of nature’s most astonishing feats take place at a scale often smaller than a ...

Although we've seen a number of different robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding clever new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers ...

(a) The system consisted of six parts as follows: (1) a force transducer; (2) a BAP; (3) a fixture; (4) a high-speed camera; (5) a pool; and (6) a data acquisition system. (b) Photo of the BAP. (c) ...

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that can cause big problems when they enter the water supply. One way my fluid dynamics lab explores microplastic movement is by studying how tiny ...