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 ...