Typically, engineers perform surgery to implant electrodes into the insects’ antennae. The antennae contain sensors for smell, taste, sound, touch, and sensitivity to temperatures and even wind ...

Cockroaches are often referred to as pests: a destructive insect or animal that disrupts both our homes and society. Their abilities to spread disease, cause allergic reactions and just be a pretty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a special machine to automatically turn cockroaches ...

Cyborg cockroaches that find earthquake survivors. A "robofly" that sniffs out gas leaks. Flying lightning bugs that pollinate farms in space. These aren't just buzzy ideas, they're becoming reality.

Studies have indicated that insects rely on their brains to respond to what they feel and see. But for the first time, researchers have shown a direct link between neurons at the center of an insect ...

Amazingly, Nevada does not have an official state insect. We have a state fossil (ichthyosaur) and a state tartan (blue with white, red and yellow stripes). But yet there are no honors for the insect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While cockroaches can seem like just a nuisance, their presence can pose some real health risks. Cockroaches carry bacteria that ...

(CNN) — When 40-year-old Zane Wedding went swimming last week, he left with more than he bargained for — a cockroach, which burrowed inside his left ear and stayed there for three days. Wedding, who ...

Cockroaches may not be anyone's idea of a cute or cuddly creature, but they do have personalities, or at least individual character traits, researchers in Belgium have discovered. The finding could go ...

Cockroaches are one of the most unwanted and persistent home pests, but findings of a new DNA analysis have shown why these bugs are so hard to get rid of. The American cockroach (Periplaneta ...