As we apply insect repellents in an effort to thwart insect-borne diseases, we might stop to wonder how these substances work and why they are not more effective. DEET, the compound most commonly used ...

Similar to the human circulatory system or lungs, the fruit fly’s tracheal system consists of a network of tubes. During the embryonic development of these insects, this network of tubes is filled ...

You probably don’t look like an insect. You don’t have feelers or wings. You keep your skeleton inside your body instead of on the outside. But what about blood? Do insects have blood like yours? I ...

I love taking selfies with my insect friends. They’re so tiny and look so different from me. But my friend Rich Zack told me that insects and humans have lots in common. He’s an insect scientist at ...

A new mechanism that regulates the way blood vessels grow and connect to each other has been discovered by an international team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and Heinrich Heine ...

The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks has undertaken a new project taking thousands of samples to map underground fungal networks. These fungal networks, which can cover miles, are ...