Science Friday — Why this lab studies the speed of bug pee and other curiosities

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Why this lab studies the speed of bug pee and other curiosities

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In a lab in the Rocky Mountains, a group of scientists is hard at work trying to find answers across biology, physics, and engineering: They’re looking into things like the hydrodynamics of insect pee and the physics of sheepdog herding, and working to designing robots that resemble squid and hearing aids that only…

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