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How can insect breath under water?
There are hundreds of species of insects that live mainly in water where there is more food on the shore. MIT mathematicians discovered how bugs can breathe underwater.
Water Spider
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Oceanography
Spider breaths with air bubbles
The water spider Argyroneta aquatica (pictured) is able to use air bubbles to breathe underwater and has been discovered by biologists of Humboldt University (Germany).
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Robot can jump on the water
Researchers from two faculties, Kim Ho-young and Cho Kyu-jin of Seoul National University's Aerospace and Engineering Faculty, have successfully developed the tiny r…