Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in ...

In the pitch black hours nearing midnight last March on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, a team of scientists came across a ...

Although the concept seems like something from science fiction, science is rapidly adopting it. Researchers have started ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...

A collaborative research group has developed a bio-inspired robotic system based on insect behavior which can locate odor ...

The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...

Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science Emma Saaty Torsten Dikow overlooks ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

My pre-K students always jump at the opportunity to explore nature, and they also love digging into bugs. I previously ...