Ripple bugs use a special fan-like structure on their middle legs to speed and steer through turbulent waters. In a new Science study, researchers report a water-walking robot inspired by this feature. Learn more in our latest issue: https://scim.ag/3V8FjDU

New paper in PLOS Biology: as we raise the difficulty of our 3D printed puzzles, bees keep landing on combs with ever stranger hexagonal order! 🐝 Led by the brilliant Golnar Gharooni Fard, in collaboration with CK Prasanna & FL Jiménez journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🚰 Fluid inertia limits microporous flow efficiency, out in EPJ Plus this week, with Kaare Jensen @jensen-research.bsky.social‬ rdcu.be/eBV2C 👇

Déployer ses ailes : la première étape cruciale de l’insecte adulte 🪰🦋🐞 Un article grand public avec @simonhadjaje.bsky.social et édité par Elsa Couderc

The Conversation France@france.theconversation.com · 2y ago

Quand la mouche déploie ses ailes

Fly wing unfurling study throws light on how tissues and organs are shaped 📹: Simon Hadjaje et al @joelmarthelot.bsky.social Raphaël Clément @univ-amu.fr & @centuri-ls.bsky.social in @naturecomms.bsky.social ➡️: bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with JohnAnkers

Fresh off the press, our work on wing deployment in Drosophila 🪰: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Work by: Simon Hadjaje, Ignacio Andrade-Silva, Marie-Julie Dalbe and Raphaël Clément