SBE Assistant Professor Víctor Ortega-Jiménez featured in New York Times and Science News for PNAS paper on the amazing aeronautics of springtails
Read the PNAS paper, Directional takeoff, aerial righting, and adhesion landing of semiaquatic springtails, here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2211283119
Read the New York Times article, and watch some impressive videos here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/science/springtail-jumps.html
And read the Science News story with video here: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/video-springtails-jumps-collembola