In a recent experiment on the sun-baked dunes of Douz, Tunisia, the insects clocked in at about 2.8 feet per second—or about 108 times their body length in a single second. If that were scaled ...

This device can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 30 feet per second. Elliot W. Hawkes Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have designed a one-foot device that can leap more ...