News tagged with water strider
Bionic microrobot mimics the 'water strider' and walks on water (w/ Video)
Scientists are reporting development of a new aquatic microrobot that mimics the amazing water-walking abilities of the water strider — the long-legged insect that scoots across the surface of ponds, ...
Jul 27, 2011 |
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Mom was right: Why nice guys usually get the girls
(PhysOrg.com) -- Female water striders often reject their most persistent and aggressive suitors and prefer the males who aren't so grabby, according to new research. Water striders are insects commonly seen ...
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Scientists identify gene that makes water striders glide across water
(PhysOrg.com) -- Water striders, the familiar semi-aquatic bugs gliding across the lake at the cottage, have a novel body form that allows them to walk on water. This was not always the case. Achieving the ...
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Research gives clues for self-cleaning materials, water-striding robots
Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water -- all those things and more could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 04, 2009 |
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Researchers deconstruct the physics of writing with a fountain pen
Wetting a fountain pen to compose a thank-you note is a grand way to express gratitude for a holiday gift, yet we often don’t give a thought to what happens when ink moves from pen to paper. But for a ...
Dec 30, 2011 |
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Scientists imitate nature to engineer nanofilms
In nature, water striders can walk on water, butterflies can shed water from their wings, and plants can trap insects and pollen. Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory are part of a research team working ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Nanostructured materials repel water droplets before they have a chance to freeze (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers from Harvard University have designed and demonstrated ice-free nanostructured materials that literally repel water droplets before they even have the chance to freeze.
Nov 13, 2010 |
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A well-known effect in breakfast cereal helps physicists understand the universe
Have you ever noticed how the last bits of cereal in the bowl always seem to cling to one another, making it easy to spoon up the remaining stragglers? Physicists have -- and they've given it a name: the "Cheerios ...
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Hidden genitalia in female water striders makes males 'sing'
In a study published in PLoS ONE June 10, Chang Seok Han and Piotr Jablonski at Seoul National University, Korea, report that by evolving a morphological shield to protect their genitalia from males' forceful copulatory attemp ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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New super-bouyant material: Life preserver might float a horse
Here's a story that might float your boat: Researchers in China are reporting the development of miniature super-bouyant boats that float so well that an ordinary life preserver made from the same material might support a ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Research shows how insects use trapped oxygen to breathe underwater
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hundreds of insect species spend much of their time underwater, where food may be more plentiful. MIT mathematicians have now figured out exactly how those insects breathe underwater.
Jul 30, 2008 |
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Solving another mystery of an amazing water walker
Walking on water may seem like a miracle to humans, but it is a ho-hum for the water strider and scientists who already solved the mystery of that amazing ability. Now researchers in Korea are reporting a ...
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Robot walks on water
Water striders, insects that walk on the surface of the water, may never set foot on land in their lives, and yet they’re not swimmers. Over the past million or so years, this insect—sometimes called a water ...
Jul 11, 2007 |
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New insect species found in Thailand
A U.S. entomologist has discovered several new aquatic insect species in Thailand and some of the bugs pack quite a powerful bite.
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May 24, 2007 |
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