An international team of scientists have created a robot that can walk and jump on water. I, for one, welcome our water-walking robot overlords. Robotic engineers from Harvard and Seoul National ...

There's no way around it: A crew of Harvard roboticists seems dead set on creating an army of mechanical cockroaches. Earlier this year, engineers at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering ...

For billions of years, nature has been the world’s master engineer. Natural evolution has created impressive, sometimes implausible creatures. Take, for instance, the water strider. This group of ...

Scientists said on Wednesday they have discovered how tiny insects manage to walk on water and propel themselves across the slippery slopes of ponds and puddles. Although the surfaces of the water ...

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 ...

Don't think it's a trick of the light. There are actually animals that can walk on water, including these talented creatures. Are there really animals that can walk on water? There is no question ...

In February, we wrote about an impressive insect-inspired robot which scuttled around at impressive speeds like a cockroach on Red Bull. As it turns out, the team responsible for the robot aren’t ...

Andrew Dickerson receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Water striders are tiny insects that can walk on water. They’re abundant in humid, rainy areas, and some species go their entire ...

Although it’s commonplace to see insects walk across the surface of a pond or lake, it’s quite a rare sight to see one walking across the underside of a water body’s surface. (Unless, of course, ...