A new insect-scale robot developed at MIT is reshaping how robotics can be used in challenging environments like disaster ...

I stared at that corner. I imagined the abyssal depths it hinted at, the monsters lurking in that lightless world. Horrors ...

Smaller than a human thumb and weighing less than a paperclip, the so-called hopping robot features a springy leg that helps ...

Pueblo County CSU-Extension Office horticulture specialist Amanda Weidner writes about insects that are your allies in the ...

Sparrows are vanishing from our homes — discover easy ways to help protect them and restore balance to nature.

Ontario is moving to gut protections for endangered plants and animals as part of a mining bill, environmental groups say.

The fossil’s discovery in Brazil shows that ants have been around for longer than once thought. This insect impaled its prey ...

A Thai woman removed a cockroach from the head of a foreign man, only for him to become angry as the insect was his pet.

This little perpetual-motion machine needs to eat constantly because of its high metabolism and high body temperature. If it ...

“There’s millions of people stuck in their cars, backed up from here to Timbuktu, and you’re worried about a grasshopper jumping across the highway. We need to start building and we’re ...

An overlooked fossil in storage in Brazil was hiding the 113-million-year-old remains of a "hell ant," now the oldest ant ...