ZSI scientists identify first Indian representative of the Neelus genus, highlighting Eastern Himalayas’ rich biodiversity ...

A new springtail species has been discovered in Sikkim, the first of its genus recorded in India. This highlights the rich ...

ZSI scientists discover *Neelus sikkimensis*, the first of its genus in India, deep in the Eastern Himalayas’ soil ...

In all these many years, I have never written a column on springtails, and yet I am pretty sure you have them all over your yard. In fact, you have more of them than any other arthropod. You probably ...

A young hawk feasts on the remains of an unlucky squirrel. A slime mould and tiny springtail rest beneath a log. A swarm of tadpoles school beneath clouds of lily pads. Sydneysiders will have the ...

Inspired by these agile hexapods, researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have built a robot that not only walks but also jumps, redefining the ...

An Iowa city is among 50 others across the country selected as the most charming towns in America by HGTV. Towns like Mancos, Colorado, and New Castle, Delaware, made the list. Decorah, Iowa, was ...

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 ...

Globular springtails (Dicyrtomina minuta) are small bugs about five millimetres long that can be seen crawling through leaf litter and garden soil. While they do not have wings and cannot fly, they ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the ...