Omniphobic surfaces found in nature have great potential for enabling novel and emerging
products and technologies to facilitate the daily life of human societies. One example is the …

Slippery surfaces, which originate in nature with special wettability, have attracted
considerable attention in both fundamental research and practical applications in a variety of …

The present paper proposes a novel nature-inspired optimization paradigm, which is called
the Water Strider Algorithm (WSA). The WSA is a population-based optimizer inspired by the …

Aquatic locomotion is challenging for land-dwelling creatures because of the high degree of
fluidity with which the water yields to loads. We surprisingly found that the Chinese rice …

Jum** on water is a unique locomotion mode found in semi-aquatic arthropods, such as
water striders. To reproduce this feat in a surface tension–dominant jum** robot, we …

Hydrogels are an exciting class of materials for new and emerging robotics. For example,
actuators based on hydrogels have impressive deformability and responsiveness. Studies …

In nature, some semiaquatic arthropods evolve biomechanics for jum** on the water
surface with the controlled burst of kinetic energy. Emulating these creatures, miniature …

Knowing when the geodynamo started is important for understanding the evolution of the
core, the atmosphere, and life on Earth. We report full-vector paleointensity measurements …

Capillarity can be used to direct anisotropic colloidal particles to precise locations and to
orient them by using interface curvature as an applied field. We show this in experiments in …

Aquatic insects are the dominant invertebrate fauna in most freshwater ecosystems, and
figure prominently in the work of a diverse range of researchers, students, and …