A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

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A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, scientists have found. The journal PNAS ...