A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity ...

By studying how worms use electric charge to jump onto flies, scientists are showing even physical strategies are embedded in ...

Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

What is Electrostatic Force Microscopy? Electrostatic Force Microscopy (EFM) is a scanning probe microscopy technique that measures the electrostatic interactions between a conductive probe and a ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Apollo Moon Program struggled with a minuscule, yet formidable enemy: sticky lunar dust. Four decades later, a new study reveals that forces compelling lunar dust to cling ...