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

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

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

But new research shows there’s another force working to their advantage: static electricity. At human scale, static electricity is little more than a curiosity. You walk across the carpet, friction ...

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

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

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

Researchers at the University of Bristol have made an exciting discovery—synthetic materials that can move on their own, similar to how worms move. This research is part of a growing field called ...