Small fish swimming in a school could sense the position and tail beat of their neighbors as water pressure variance on the side of their bodies, according to Skoltech researchers and colleagues from ESPCI Paris, Chiba University, and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, who used a 3D simulation.
An international team of researchers describes in detail the mechanisms of the extraordinarily fast flight of the smallest free-living insects, beetles of the featherwing family (Ptiliidae). The team .