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Aug. 26, 2011
Water Striders Don’t Stride, They Row
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| David Hu, mechanical engineer at Georgia Tech, wanted to understand the basic physics of how water striders glide. By filming them stride on food coloring and building his own robotic strider, he found out that the secret to the stride is in the paddle. |
Produced by Flora Lichtman, Correspondent and Managing Editor, Video
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