‘Bone collector’ caterpillar wears dead insect body parts as disguise
Bone collector caterpillars from the Waianae mountain range in Oahu, HawaiiDaniel Rubinoff et al. 2025…
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Tiny insect-like robot can flip, loop and hover for up to 15 minutes
A tiny drone powered by soft muscle-like actuatorsKevin Chen An insect-inspired robot that only weighs…
Fiction to reality: Will the U.S. ever embrace insect cuisine? – Grist
The vision “After the ninth epidemic of mad cow disease, everyone was already eating insects.…
Nanotech Scientists Build on an Insect’s Odd Soccer-Ball-Like Excretions to Design Ingenious Camouflage
January 2, 20255 min readNanotech Scientists Build on an Insect’s Odd Soccer-Ball-Like Excretions to Design…
Ancient Plant, Insect Bits Confirm Greenland Melted in Recent Geologic Past – State of the Planet
The story of Greenland keeps getting greener—and scarier. A new study provides the first direct evidence that…
Cameras inspired by insect eyes could give robots a wider view
A binocular vision system consisting of two artificial compound eyes, each containing 37 light sensorsZhiyong…
Insect cyborgs: Towards precision movement
Insect cyborgs may sound like science fiction, but it's a relatively new phenomenon based on…
Wing-flapping robot helps explain the evolution of insect flight
The tobacco hawk moth (Manduca sexta)Jay Ondreicka/Shutterstock Some insects can flap their wings so rapidly…
How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.On warm summer nights, green lacewings…
Europe’s ‘insect apocalypse’ may mostly be driven by changing weather
Bees may feel the impact of the weatherKay Roxby/Alamy Stock Photo Booms and busts among…