Though we know them to be dirty insects, cockroaches are actually incredible self-groomers. In fact, their grooming behavior ...

Animals aren’t the only organisms with complex microbiomes. Like humans, insects house a variety of bacteria in their guts. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria live in the guts of termites, honey bees carry ...

CLAREMORE, Okla. -- A Claremore 10-year-old has a love for cockroaches. Shelby Counterman can play with her stuffed animals, but they don't play back. Her cockroaches do. She keeps them in plastic ...

Tiny mites living on the surface of Madagascar hissing cockroaches help decrease the presence of a variety of molds on the cockroaches’ bodies, potentially reducing allergic responses among humans who ...

If you're ever trapped in a collapsed building and are calling for help, you might want to think twice before squashing any cockroaches that wander your way – one of them might have been sent to find ...

Search and rescue dogs, while wonderful, have their limitations – namely, the inability to fit into tiny spaces. A team of researchers has come up with a solution in the form of cyborg cockroaches ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. WASHINGTON — When buildings collapse in future disasters, the hero helping ...

Three cockroaches squeeze though a 3 mm crevice under a room door at different stages of traversal. (Photo courtesy Tom Libby, Kaushik Jayaram and Pauline Jennings/ UC Berkeley) A recent study on how ...