Fatal attraction: Electric charge connects jumping worm to aerial prey

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity ...
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This Parasitic Worm Uses Electricity As ‘Tractor Beam’ To Catch Flying Insects Mid-Air

Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...
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This tiny worm uses static electricity to hunt flying insects

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...
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Better adhesion than previously thought in van der Waals force

Materials Science (P&A) Materials Sciences (M&T) Quantum Physics The forces of attraction between atoms or molecules, which the Dutch physicist Johannes Diderik van der Waals discovered almost 150 ...