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 ...

Aquaporins are integral membrane proteins that facilitate the rapid, selective transport of water—and in certain cases, small solutes such as glycerol—across cell membranes. In insects, these proteins ...

Saad Bhamla was in his backyard when he noticed something he had never seen before: an insect urinating. Although nearly impossible to see, the insect formed an almost perfectly round droplet on its ...