Cockroaches are usually treated as simple creatures that react without pause, driven by instinct rather than experience. New ...

Tracking animals from space using dedicated small satellites—that’s the goal of the global research initiative ICARUS. Plus: ...

While some may see amateur rocketry as little more than attaching fins to a motor and letting it fly, it is, in fact, rocket science. This fact became very clear to [BPS.space] when a parachute ...

Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

Though we know them to be dirty insects, cockroaches are actually incredible self-groomers. In fact, their grooming behavior ...

A European hornet emerges from a wooden surface, its face and antennae clearly visible. The image highlights a brief moment ...

Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.

Insects are everywhere, crawling across sidewalks, hanging out in our gardens, and even invading our homes. Despite ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

Abstract: Insects have excellent odor-searching capabilities using their movable antennae and arrays of odor-receptive cells to locate odor sources. In previous studies on odor-searching robots with ...

A rare fossil insect from Tibet, given the name Zekuforma maculata, reveals that a landlocked lineage of ‘true bugs’ briefly tested semi-aquatic life. The discovery rewrites about 230 million years of ...

Humans can have extreme reactions when they come across insects – from delight at the sight of a Monarch butterfly to disgust at a scurrying cockroach. But did you know that many insects are too small ...