On some winter days, large swarms of water striders emerge from wherever they hide on cold days and go racing across the surface of Geronimo Creek. The ones in the nearby photo were waltzing across ...
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 ...
Intrigued by the floating mechanisms of water striders and the updated Archimedes’ principle, which states that floating force equals the expelled liquid volume, researchers sought to discover how the ...
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2016 -- While walking beside the creek in the Beijing Botany Garden one autumn, Yu Tian, a professor of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University in China, noticed ...
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