Cockroach gut microbes can rapidly degrade polystyrene, demonstrating their potential for plastic bioremediation.

Plastic pollution remains one of the most persistent environmental crises, with polystyrene (PS) among the hardest polymers ...

Cockroaches have some of the worst PR in the animal kingdom. With a better agent, their story could be that of a hardy insect that has successfully thrived on every continent except Antarctica. People ...

Anil Oza, STAT’s Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow, used to research and teach neurophysiology to college students using snails and crayfish. Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT ...

BOSTON - NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back. The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had ...

When conditions get too dry, Madagascar hissing cockroaches like to "cuddle". Under certain conditions, the large insects gather in groups, with many participants in physical contact with one another.

German defense technology startup SWARM Biotactics has deployed programmable cyborg insect swarms for paying ...