Solar farms could offer more than clean energy. A three-year study by Cornell University researchers in New York has found that allowing sheep to graze beneath solar panels may also benefit insects, i...
Lionel Messi’s latest botanical honour takes his Guinness World Records tally to six species, including animals, fossils and fungi. A sage plant discovered in the Peruvian Andes has become the sixth s...
Not much in the world has survived to be known as old as the dinosaurs, but when it comes to a recently discovered insect species, the statement holds true. Some 99 million years ago, a tiny insect be...
The research focused on nine extinct insect species related to modern crickets and katydids. For 165 million years, the sounds made by insects living alongside dinosaurs were lost to time. Scientists ...
Representative Image of Chosha praecursor, an early insect with paddle-like abdominal appendages in a prehistoric landscape (AI-generated image) Today, insects occupy nearly every terrestrial environm...
A $12 million research project at Penn State is trying to give drones a new way of making decisions, drawing inspiration from the small brains of insects and other animals. Funded by the US Army’s Arm...
$500-million Nausicaa superyacht’s radar shields are huge that its crew looks like insects cleaning them A viral video of Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa’s $500 million sailing superyacht, N...
Herbivore species dynamics is key to grassland food web stability In 2005, scientists began reshaping a semi-arid grassland in Inner Mongolia by changing its mix of plants. Years later, when researche...
Although the concept seems like something from science fiction, science is rapidly adopting it. Researchers have started creating ‘cyborg cockroaches,’ which are live insects equipped with tiny electr...