the bottle held a thin broth, light brown, with some uncertain chunks of dark matter bobbing on top—a soup, maybe, but one that you’d never want to eat. Once it was poured into a white plastic tray, ...

Velvet worms, trapdoor spiders: Scientists worry about the fate of the nation’s many remarkable, overlooked endemic creatures. By Helen Sullivan SYDNEY, Australia — When Tanya Latty, an entomologist ...

Insects that are adapted to perennially wet environments, like tropical rainforests, don’t tend to do well when their surroundings dry out. New research published this Wednesday indicates they may be ...

Not long ago, a lengthy drive on a hot day wouldn't be complete without scraping bug guts off a windshield. But splattered insects have gone the way of the Chevy Nova - you just don't see them on the ...

Geek of the Week profiles the characters of Pacific Northwest tech, science, games, innovation and more. See the Geek of the Week archive for more. by Kurt Schlosser on Aug 4, 2020 at 6:30 am August 3 ...

The Pentagon's research wing is investigating how certain insects could provide a key to developing new technologies related to artificial intelligence. The U.S. military has long experimented with ...

This piece was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Given that she infects ant colonies with deadly pathogens and then studies how they respond, one ...

To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the ...

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