Fleas perform an amazing feat when they jump, and the mechanics behind the tiny, bloodsucking pests' acrobatics have been studied — and debated — for a long time. But new research may have settled one ...

Fleas perform an amazing feat when they jump, and the mechanics behind the tiny, bloodsucking pests' acrobatics have been studied -- and debated -- for a long time. But new research may have settled ...

One of those odd facts that children learn at school -- how fleas can jump many times their own height -- has now materialized in the form of a new robotic design. We've seen robots designed by ...

If you thought that we know everything about how the flea jumps, think again. In 1967, Henry Bennet-Clark discovered that fleas store the energy needed to catapult themselves into the air in an ...

While everyone else gets all riled up about tick season, the warm weather means another parasitic pest is upon us: fleas. The rising temperatures makes it more hospitable for eggs to hatch, and more ...

[Photo: Boston Dynamics] Boston Dynamics has brought us some frightening mobility robots that can walk and run. But now they are showing off something much more simple: a small, unassuming RC car…that ...

Flea beetle damage. It begins with a tiny “shothole,” a hole straight through a leaf as if the leaf was poked with a tiny ice pick. Damage begins with a few holes then faint lacy patternings appear ...