Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. Bees have long impressed behavioral scientist Lars Chittka. In his lab at Queen Mary University of London, the pollinators have proven themselves ...

A meadow grasshopper (Pseudochorthippus parallelus). This species is widespread across most of Europe and is commonly used as a model organism in evolutionary biology. If an experiment is repeated ...

Pollination is the process where pollen is transferred from one flower to another in order to allow fertilization, this is spread by wind, insects, or other animals. If pollination is not able to ...

Researchers led by Nick Gravish, a faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, built a small flapper robot that operates in air. Robots built by engineers at ...

As NASA prepares for long-term bases beyond Earth, scientists are turning their attention to some of our planet’s tiniest ...

While understanding this most-common of insects is a reward unto itself, this research will also change how scientists design essential search and rescue robots. Insects (including common flies) are ...

This article was originally published by Undark. Bees have long impressed the behavioral scientist Lars Chittka. In his lab at Queen Mary University of London, the pollinators have proved themselves ...

Informatics experts have developed a new computational model that demonstrates a long sought after link between insect and mammalian learning. Even the humble fruit fly craves a dose of the happy ...

Microplastics were found in Antarctica’s only native insect, highlighting how plastic pollution has spread into remote land ...