Many insects feel right at home in the hot, humid environments of the tropics; more than 70 percent of the world’s insect ...

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

For more than a decade, Evan Economo's lab has been using micro-CT machines to scan insect specimens. The resulting X-ray images help researchers study the form and structure of insects—a subfield of ...

A new high-tech scanning system is rapidly turning thousands of ants into stunning 3D models—building a digital library of ...

Scientists have just created a new, strange type of molecule. It’s made of a bunch of atoms bound together in a ring, like ...

Like much that comes out of the UN, it is all a ruse.

"We envision a future where, after disasters such as earthquakes or building collapses, cyborg cockroaches can quickly and efficiently navigate areas unsafe for humans to enter," said Huai Ruituo, an ...

Researchers leveraged advanced technologies and artificial intelligence to hasten the process of generating 2,000 3D digital ant images. Now, a class of UMD computer science majors is working to bring ...

In Daniel Chong’s cheerfully ludicrous science-fiction comedy, robot technology enables an environmental activist to walk and ...