Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...

NANJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be used for prospecting and mining on the moon or asteroids in the future. Unlike ...

Grasshoppers may not spring to mind as paragons of graceful flight. But for a team of Princeton engineers, these gangly insects have inspired a new approach to robotic wings. Typical designs for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...

Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI ...

Forget robot wolves and missile-deflecting satellites — those things are already becoming old news. Instead, future wars just might revolve around insect-size spy robots. A recent digest of ...

A long-term study in Colorado reveals that insect populations are plummeting even in remote, undisturbed areas. Over two decades, flying insect abundance dropped by more than 70%, closely linked to ...

Flying insect populations are plummeting even in remote, undisturbed ecosystems, raising fears that climate change may be playing a greater role than previously understood. The study, conducted by ...

An industry based on insects’ natural recycling abilities could help limit the environmental damage from our food system. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript ...

Christine Picard receives funding in part by the National Science Foundation through the Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers NSF cooperative agreements. Any opinions, findings, and ...

A thousand meters up in a humid, cloud-covered forest, amidst a slew of twigs and limbs, an onlooker spotted something different—this branch had legs. But even for a stick insect, a forest dweller ...

Researchers have discovered a giant stick insect living at high altitude in tropical North Queensland. Acrophylla alta is around 16 inches long and a strong contender for Australia's heaviest recorded ...