Tiny insects known as sharpshooters excrete by catapulting urine drops at incredible accelerations. By using computational fluid dynamics and biophysical experiments, the researchers studied the ...
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Saad Bhamla was in his backyard when he noticed something he had never seen before: an insect urinating. Although nearly impossible to see, the insect formed an almost perfectly round droplet on its ...
A sharpshooter insect forming a urine droplet before it catapulting it high acceleration. Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology Saad Bhamla was in his backyard when he noticed something he had never ...