{"666241":{"#nid":"666241","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Super-fast Insect Urination Powered by the Physics of Superpropulsion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESaad Bhamla was in his backyard when he saw something he had never seen before: an insect urinating. Though nearly impossible to see, the insect formed an almost perfectly round droplet on its tail and then launched it away so quickly that it seemed to disappear. The tiny insect relieved itself repeatedly for hours.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/super-fast-insect-urination-powered-physics-superpropulsion\u0022\u003EWatch the video and read the full story here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tiny insects known as sharpshooters excrete by catapulting urine drops at incredible accelerations. Their excretion is the first example of superpropulsion discovered in a biological system."}],"uid":"36123","created_gmt":"2023-02-28 15:04:48","changed_gmt":"2023-02-28 16:25:52","author":"Catherine Barzler","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"666240":{"id":"666240","type":"image","title":"sharpshooter graphic","body":null,"created":"1677596229","gmt_created":"2023-02-28 14:57:09","changed":"1677596229","gmt_changed":"2023-02-28 14:57:09","alt":"A green sharpshooter insect with a urine droplet forming on his tail rests on a green stem..","file":{"fid":"251922","name":"Screen Shot 2023-02-28 at 9.51.32 AM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-28%20at%209.51.32%20AM.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-28%20at%209.51.32%20AM.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1524349,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-28%20at%209.51.32%20AM.png?itok=Ctk1I9Eb"}}},"media_ids":["666240"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71911","name":"Earth and Environment"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:catherine.barzler@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECatherine Barzler\u003C\/a\u003E, Senior Research Writer\/Editor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["catherine.barzler@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}