Flight of the Midge Larva: How These Tiny Creatures Blast Off
Flight of the Midge Larva: How These Tiny Creatures Blast Off
via GIPHY Imagine trying to bend an inflated bicycle tire tube in half. It's a bit difficult, though not impossible. When you let go, the pressure inside snaps the tube back to its normal shape, as if spring-loaded. What you're doing when you bend the tube is essentially storing energy inside it, to be released all at once when you let go. The trick isn't very useful when it comes to bike tires, of course, but scientists have found that a species of midge has a unique way to put this tech
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August 09, 2019 at 03:00AM
via GIPHY Imagine trying to bend an inflated bicycle tire tube in half. It's a bit difficult, though not impossible. When you let go, the pressure inside snaps the tube back to its normal shape, as if spring-loaded. What you're doing when you bend the tube is essentially storing energy inside it, to be released all at once when you let go. The trick isn't very useful when it comes to bike tires, of course, but scientists have found that a species of midge has a unique way to put this tech
Source All DiscoverMagazine.com content
Read more Flight of the Midge Larva: How These Tiny Creatures Blast Off
August 09, 2019 at 03:00AM
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