Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan's wet, cold weather is revealing springtails, ancient arthropods typically found on snow piles during the winter. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Snowy conditions and cold weather could reveal springtails, ancient arthropods typically found on snow piles during the winter.

You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people ...

Move over, Sonic. There’s a new spin-jumping champion in town – the globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta). This diminutive hexapod backflips into the air, spinning to over 60 times its body height ...

Springtails, also known as "snow fleas," are ancient arthropods that can be seen on snow during winter. Despite their nickname, springtails are harmless to humans, do not bite, and are a different ...