Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these ...

Because metabolic rate depends predictably on both body size and temperature, we can estimate the magnitude of many ecological processes from the temperature and size of the organisms that affect ...

You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people ...