As the wildfires in Maui tore through the town of Lahaina, some people fled into the ocean to try to escape the encroaching flames. "We hid behind a jetty because the wind was so hot," one man told a ...

Water striders live on the water surface and their leg length ranges from several to over 100 millimeters (Fig. 1,2). It is well known that they use their long hydrophobic legs and support their ...

Whether diving off docks, cannonballing into lakes or leaping off the high board, there’s nothing quite like the joy of jumping into water. Olympic divers turned this natural act into a sophisticated ...

At a place on Lake Tahoe’s West Shore where a rock face meets the lapis lazuli water, my friend is standing on the edge of the cliff gazing at the crystalline liquid below. “Jump!” we yell from our ...