New high-speed footage and microCT scans reveal how globular springtails, tiny hexapods living in leaf litter, achieve the ...

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This month, researchers in Japan have announced the discovery of four new species of springtails, insect-like bugs that jump away from danger with their tails. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists in ...

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Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...