Life in a bubble

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Mathematics and Statistics  Tue, 07/29/2008 - 23:00

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Hundreds of insect species spend much of their time underwater, where food may be more plentiful.

MIT mathematicians have now figured out exactly how those insects breathe underwater.


 

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