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 ...

To figure out exactly how insects called water striders walk on water, researchers at MIT (where else?) have created a robotic insect called the Robostrider. Read Get the best tech, science, and ...

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 ...

Imagine a tiny robot, no bigger than a leaf, gliding across a pond’s surface like a water strider. One day, devices like this could track pollutants, collect water samples or scout flooded areas too ...