What better summer pastime than sitting by a pond on a hot day? The frogs are languidly croaking, and the mosquitoes are not so terrible at the moment so just a few are buzzing by your ear. The ...

Add water aerobics to the list of the agile gecko’s athletic accomplishments. In addition to sticking to smooth walls and swinging from leaves, geckos can skitter along the surface of water. By ...

What better summer pastime than sitting by a pond on a hot day? The frogs are languidly croaking, and the mosquitoes are not so terrible at the moment so just a few are buzzing by your ear. The ...

After years of closely studying the water strider’s ability to walk and leap off the surface of water, researchers from Seoul National University and Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ...

Water striders are the perfect, poetic rendering of water’s most magical property -- its tendency to form an invisible membrane on its surface like a fragile skin. And as if granted special powers, ...

Propelled by chemical changes in surface tension, microrobots surfing across fluid interfaces lead researchers to new ideas. Spend an afternoon by a creek in the woods, and you're likely to notice ...

Prime Day Deals: Shop sales in tech, home, fashion, beauty & more curated by our editors. Moreno’s beautiful haiku captures the allure of these graceful insects. Water striders are the epitome of ...

He walks on water with long, tensile legs skates the surface of this element leaving no ripple, no distorted clarity never breaking the surface tension quite at home in the sky mirrored under him. He ...