Super-fast insect urination powered by the physics of superpropulsion

ScienceDaily
Feb 28, 2023, 4:37 pm93 pts
Tiny insects known as sharpshooters excrete by catapulting urine drops at incredible accelerations. By using computational fluid dynamics and biophysical experiments, the researchers studied the fluidic, energetic, and biomechanical principles of excretion, revealing how an insect smaller than the tip of a…

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