SCIENCE CENTER. ALL OF MAY. WE’VE BEEN SHOWING YOU VERY MESSY EXPERIMENTS LIKE FOAM EXPLOSIONS AND SPLAT OF BOLTS AND TODAY WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT AN INSECT MANY MAY THINK IS A LITTLE GROSS, BUT ...

A swarm of insects could one day be the most reassuring sight imaginable to someone trapped in a collapsed building. That’s because researchers at N.C. State are developing technology that equips ...

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Earth boasts some 4,600 species of cockroach, but perhaps none is as widespread as the German cockroach (Blattella germanica), which is today found anywhere humans permanently inhabit. But despite its ...

Anil Oza, STAT’s Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow, used to research and teach neurophysiology to college students using snails and crayfish. Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT ...

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