How to walk on water

Michael Dickinson ()
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Michael Dickinson: California Institute of Technology

Nature, 2003, vol. 424, issue 6949, 621-622

Abstract: How the short legs of juvenile water striders propel the insects across water has perplexed researchers. It now appears that walking on water shares features with the locomotion of birds, insects and fish.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1038/424621a

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