Click above to listen to part 3 of Go With the Flow, featuring Philip Matthews, Comparative physiologist at the University of British Columbia, describing how and why one insect species produces many times its body weight in tiny bubbles.
Go With the Flow:
Part 1: Mark Miodownik / Liquid Rules
Part 2: Arnaud Chulliat / Liquid Core
Part 3: Philip Matthews / Spittlebug Suds
Part 4: Rose George / Life’s Blood
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