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  <title><![CDATA[Super-fast Insect Urination Powered by the Physics of Superpropulsion]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>Saad 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.</p>

<h2><a href="https://research.gatech.edu/super-fast-insect-urination-powered-physics-superpropulsion">Watch the video and read the full story here</a>.</h2>
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      <value><![CDATA[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.]]></value>
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                  <image_alt><![CDATA[A green sharpshooter insect with a urine droplet forming on his tail rests on a green stem..]]></image_alt>
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      <email><![CDATA[catherine.barzler@gatech.edu]]></email>
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      <value><![CDATA[<p><a href="mailto:catherine.barzler@gatech.edu">Catherine Barzler</a>, Senior Research Writer/Editor</p>
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