Slow-motion videos suggest that the insects display distinct behaviors when they like or dislike a snack. The findings might ...

Previously, researchers created electrical implants to control cockroaches' movements for search-and-rescue missions. Now, ...

The sound effect that still haunts Nintendo Wii users 20 years later is the "Horn of Death" which plays when the system ...

A series of experiments shows that bees respond differently to tastes depending on their internal states, hinting that they ...

I am Takemi, a storyteller of moving images. In the previous installment of the “Genetics of Storytelling” series, I wrote about the “eye,” that is, the Japanese aesthetic sensibility of appreciating ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their size possible. A new study overturns that idea, revealing insect flight ...

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In the vast symphony of nature, where survival often hinges on a creature’s ability to outsmart or overpower its opponent, certain insects have developed an astonishing method of hunting. Far from the ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...

Insects are easy to underestimate. They are small, everywhere, and people swat them as if they were the most insignificant creatures. But the truth is that insects are more fascinating than they are ...

Amherst - Ecologists at UMass Amherst sound the alarm over how little we know about the ecological status of insects and arachnids, which are key to planetary health Members of the arachnid ...