A Biologist Explains How A Cockroach Can Survive Without Its Head For Days. Hint: The Body Keeps Going Anyway

A headless cockroach isn’t fictional biology. Here’s how its decentralized systems keep it alive for days after being ...
STAT

Researchers are betting on cockroaches as the cure to elitism in neuroscience

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 ...
Forbes

China’s Low-Key ‘Cockroach Industry’ Could Reshape Medicine, Meals, Makeup—A Biologist Explains

Hidden behind stacks of cardboard across factories in China, billions of cockroaches are quietly fueling a multi-million-dollar revolution that could change the way we eat and live. Humans may be ...
Scientific American

Forget roses—name a roach after your valentine instead

The Name a Roach program has made more than $1 million for the city’s zoos in its 15 years of existence, with more than 60,000 roaches named.