{"id":782,"date":"2003-08-12T04:11:20","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T04:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:20","slug":"mystery-of-walking-of-water-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"mystery of walking of water solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">No, walking on water is not a miracle, at least  not for the small insects known as water striders. But even for  striders, the ability has remained mysterious &#8212; until now. John W. M.  Bush and his colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology  report in the August 7 <em>Nature<\/em> that they have solved the mystery. Michael  Dickinson of the California Institute of Technology writes in a related  article, &#8220;Much of animal locomotion distills down to a simple  application of Newton&#8217;s third law: to move forwards, animals must push  something backwards.&#8221; It was long thought that striders pushed forward  off tiny surface waves they created with their long, thin legs. But,  even though baby water striders didn&#8217;t have enough strength in their  legs to generate these waves, they were still able to walk on water. So  how do they do it? Using high-speed video and particle-tracking studies  to analyze the insects&#8217; movements, the MIT researchers found that water  striders&#8217; legs create swirling whirlpools below the surface that propel  the insect forward. MIT being MIT, the team also built a robotic version  of the insect, named Robostrider, which walks on water, too. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 8\/12\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, walking on water is not a miracle, at least not for the small insects known as water striders. But even for striders, the ability has remained mysterious &#8212; until now. John W. M. Bush and his colleagues from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=782\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}