🪲💧 Ripple #bugs live their entire lives on the surface of streams, pivoting in less than the blink of an eye while stirring the #water beneath them into swirling vortices.

#Biomechanics researcher Víctor Ortega-Jiménez spent five years figuring out their secret: feather-like oars on their middle legs that deploy and collapse in just 10 milliseconds. Engineers are now building small #robots that mimic these water-skating abilities.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/ripple-bugs-robots-skate-on-water-fan-feet-vortex-physics?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=ripple_bugs

#biomimicry #physics #engineering #insects #biology #science #animals #Berkeley #discovery #innovation #nature #research #technology #tech #tksst #video

🪲💧 Ripple #bugs live their entire lives on the surface of streams, pivoting in less than the blink of an eye while stirring the #water beneath them into swirling vortices.

#Biomechanics researcher Víctor Ortega-Jiménez spent five years figuring out their secret: feather-like oars on their middle legs that deploy and collapse in just 10 milliseconds. Engineers are now building small #robots that mimic these water-skating abilities.

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/ripple-bugs-robots-skate-on-water-fan-feet-vortex-physics?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=ripple_bugs

#biomimicry #physics #engineering #insects #biology #science #animals #Berkeley #discovery #innovation #nature #research #technology #tech #tksst #video

"When speech about Palestine has been smeared as “antisemitic” and prohibited, an entire constituency of #students has likewise experienced the silencing of their #grief, which is too often bypassed even in the discourse of #socialjustice. #Palestine is here at UC #Berkeley, as well as there, in the ongoing Israeli #genocide in #Gaza."

https://truthout.org/articles/computer-science-lecturer-at-berkeley-is-on-day-36-of-his-hunger-strike-for-gaza/

#tears4palestine #hungerstrike

"When speech about Palestine has been smeared as “antisemitic” and prohibited, an entire constituency of #students has likewise experienced the silencing of their #grief, which is too often bypassed even in the discourse of #socialjustice. #Palestine is here at UC #Berkeley, as well as there, in the ongoing Israeli #genocide in #Gaza."

https://truthout.org/articles/computer-science-lecturer-at-berkeley-is-on-day-36-of-his-hunger-strike-for-gaza/

#tears4palestine #hungerstrike

Danggg! 4.6 in the East Bay: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492/map

Fill out a "Did you feel it?" report to help with building a picture of the event: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492/tellus

#BayArea #Oakland #Berkeley #earthquake

Danggg! 4.6 in the East Bay: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492/map

Fill out a "Did you feel it?" report to help with building a picture of the event: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75240492/tellus

#BayArea #Oakland #Berkeley #earthquake

Scientists are learning how special #brain cells play a role in detecting #illusions - and such studies could eventually reveal how #hallucinations arise, or point the way to better computer vision systems. https://www.geekwire.com/2025/laser-light-brain-cells-illusions/ HT @span AllenInstitute#Science#Neuroscience#Berkeley#AllenInstitute

"The University of California (UC), Berkeley in the United States has provided information on more than 150 faculty members and students to President Donald Trump’s administration, as part of a federal investigation into 'alleged incidents of anti-Semitism' on college campuses nationwide."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/13/uc-berkeley-shares-information-on-160-staff-students-with-us-government

#Palestine#Israel#Berkeley#California #academia #education#USpol

"The University of California (UC), Berkeley in the United States has provided information on more than 150 faculty members and students to President Donald Trump’s administration, as part of a federal investigation into 'alleged incidents of anti-Semitism' on college campuses nationwide."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/13/uc-berkeley-shares-information-on-160-staff-students-with-us-government

#Palestine#Israel#Berkeley#California #academia #education#USpol