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

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