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 ...

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 ...

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When Gesa Dinges started her academic career in neurobiology, she didn’t expect to find herself pulled into the world of engineering. But after meeting West Virginia University robotics assistant ...

WVU photo Gesa Dinges is a neurobiologist fellow at the Neuro-Mechanical Intelligence (NeuroMINT) lab at West Virginia University. MORGANTOWN — When Gesa Dinges started her academic career in ...

Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming declines, ...

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ABSTRACT: Thiacloprid has been banned in many European countries for its toxicity, but is nevertheless still used outside the EU. Using the ant Myrmica sabuleti as a model organism, we sought a ...

ABSTRACT: Thiacloprid has been banned in many European countries for its toxicity, but is nevertheless still used outside the EU. Using the ant Myrmica sabuleti as a model organism, we sought a ...

Have you ever wondered how fruit flies manage to move seamlessly within a complex and unpredictable world? This seemingly trivial question is the focus of advanced research at the University of ...

(A) A locomotion tracking system for cyborg insects, which uses a camera to track the insect's position, transmitting the positional data to the host for recording; (B) a host that acquires and ...