Most people are familiar with the tiny insects that walk on the surface of lakes, ponds, rivers, and even the open sea. A thin layer of fat on the hairs on their abdomen and legs prevents water ...

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 ...

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing ...

Marine water striders represent a striking example of insect life at the ocean’s surface, a habitat dominated by pelagic organisms. Central to this group is the genus Halobates, the only insect ...

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 ...