{"673470":{"#nid":"673470","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cicadas\u2019 Unique Urination Unlocks New Understanding of Fluid Dynamics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECicadas are the soundtrack of summer, but their pee is more special than their music. Rather than sprinkling droplets, they emit jets of urine from their small frames. For years, Georgia Tech researchers have wanted to understand the cicada\u2019s unique urination.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECicadas are the soundtrack of summer, but their pee is more special than their music. Rather than sprinkling droplets, they emit jets of urine from their small frames. For years, Georgia Tech researchers have wanted to understand the cicada\u2019s unique urination.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/saad-bhamla\u0022\u003ESaad Bhamla\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, and his research group hoped for an opportunity to study a cicada\u2019s fluid excretion. However, while cicadas are easily heard, they hide in trees, making them hard to observe. As such, seeing a cicada pee is an event. Bhamla\u2019s team had only watched the process on YouTube.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThen, while doing fieldwork in Peru, the team got lucky: They saw numerous cicadas in a tree, peeing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/feature\/cicada-urination\u0022\u003ERead more about what they discovered at Georgia Tech Research News.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECicadas are the soundtrack of summer, but their pee is more special than their music. Rather than sprinkling droplets, they emit jets of urine from their small frames. For years, Georgia Tech researchers have wanted to understand the cicada\u2019s unique urination.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"While most small insects and mammals urinate in droplets, cicadas urinate in jets. Researchers from the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering say the finding could be used to create better robots and small nozzles."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2024-03-12 14:32:59","changed_gmt":"2024-03-12 14:36:20","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-03-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673363":{"id":"673363","type":"image","title":"cicada-1.jpg","body":null,"created":"1710253896","gmt_created":"2024-03-12 14:31:36","changed":"1710253881","gmt_changed":"2024-03-12 14:31:21","alt":"Cicada","file":{"fid":"256749","name":"cicada-1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/03\/12\/cicada-1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/03\/12\/cicada-1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":223969,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/03\/12\/cicada-1.jpg?itok=iKMHypEF"}}},"media_ids":["673363"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Senior Research Writer\/Editor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Etess.malone@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}