The grasshopper is the insect that jumps to mind when most people think of leaping bugs. Grasshoppers have long, hinged legs that they use to both walk around and jump when needed. Although the ...

Mimicking a real-life bug known as the water strider ... They noticed that the creature's long legs accelerate gradually, so that the water surface doesn't retreat fast and lose contact with ...

As it turns out, though, a three-millimeter long hopping insect known ... is coordination: To jump, both of the insect’s hind legs must push forward at the exact same time.

Insect gear teeth are microscopic marvels, with up to a dozen along a curving strip not more than 400 micrometers long ... as the legs cock, the cameras showed. A planthopper jumps with more ...

Now a team of international researchers has created a similar insect android that can launch ... They noticed that the creature's long legs accelerate gradually, so that the water surface doesn ...

As I went near, I was shocked to find the huge insect’s legs were as long as its body.” Before that discovery, the longest known stick insect was the 22.3 inch Phobaeticus chani, which was ...

The help coordinate the powerful jumps that are this insect ... long for the extraordinarily tight coordination required," Cambridge zoologist Malcolm Burrows said. With the biological gears the ...

In most jumping insects, synchronization is aided by frictional contact between the rear legs. Indeed ... improves the endurance of the teeth as long as high stresses are only encountered in ...

Using high-speed cameras, the researchers analyzed water striders jumping on water. They noticed that the insects’ long, superwaterproof legs accelerated gradually, so that the surface of the ...

Using high-speed cameras, the researchers analyzed water striders jumping on water. They noticed that the insects' long, superwaterproof legs accelerated gradually, so that the surface of the ...