As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

As NASA prepares for long-term bases beyond Earth, scientists are turning their attention to some of our planet’s tiniest ...

How insects, AI, and digital twins are transforming agricultural waste into sustainable animal feed at industrial scale.

Insects may sometimes seem like a scourge on humanity, but without them, our lives would look very different. The quintillions of insects that inhabit our world help feed us, clothe us and have ...

Insects are unlike mammals and birds because they must generate their own heat (called ectotherms). Insects die when they are ...

Here’s how a cliff-clinging population on a remote volcanic stack rewrote extinction for one of the world’s rarest insects.

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Mosquitoes are some of the fastest-flying insects. Flapping their wings more than 800 times a second, they achieve their speed because the muscles in their wings can flap faster than their nervous ...

Common European spittlebugs secretly spread a deadly bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, threatening over 600 plant species.

In 1988, police officers in Australia came for Ian Dadour. Not because the entomologist was under arrest, but because they needed his expertise. Investigators asked Dadour to estimate the ages of ...

Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...