Envisioning armies of electronically controllable insects is probably nightmare fuel for most people. But scientists think they could help rescue workers scour challenging and hazardous terrain. An ...

The is the Compressible Robot with Articulated Mechanisms -- also known as CRAM. It has a trick: it can squeeze into some really tight spaces. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley ...

*(CNN) — The patient is submerged in an ice bath as an anesthetic for the impending surgery. When sufficient numbness is achieved, University of Queensland student Lachlan Fitzgerald begins the ...

The first thing Jose Halloy wants you to know is that he will not help you get rid of the cockroaches in your apartment. It’s true that he and his colleagues at the Free University of Brussels and ...

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have developed a special machine to automatically turn cockroaches into cyborg roaches. This new machine can fit portable stimulation and ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People use a lot of words to describe the reviled cockroach: disgusting, ugly, sneaky and repulsive, to name a few. But it may be time to add a surprising new one: inspirational ...

Scientists are studying cockroaches to help develop an agile and virtually indestructible robot that can crawl through walls in search of survivors in disaster zones.