It turns out that cockroaches may be good for something other than stepping on. Scientists say that the "brains" of the cockroach, one of the globe's most tenacious survivors, are loaded with ...

Envisioning armies of electronically controllable insects is probably nightmare fuel for most people. But scientists think they could help rescue workers scour challenging and hazardous terrain. An ...

Researchers from Berkeley today announced the creation of a robot cockroach, called the compressible robot with articulated mechanisms, or CRAM, funded in part by the Army Research Laboratory under ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." [table-of-contents] stripped Most of us aren’t experts at bug identification—especially because most ...