While people pay good money to get rid of cockroaches and other creepy-crawlies, Kris Messenger has dedicated her life to spruiking the benefits of bugs. But she says demand for them as pets can have ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles may get all the headlines, but they're not the only flying robots in town. Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) are their smaller cousins. These tiny devices could be the key to ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been revealed ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Microbial ecologist Danielle Rutkowski, a UC Davis doctoral alumna and now a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow ...

This valuable study tests a methodology for the discovery of new honey bee-repellent odorants via machine learning. The conclusions of the study are supported by solid evidence, with predicted ...

Home gardens can provide vital habitat for Australian birds. But there's more to it than just planting certain types of ...

Move over bees, MIT researchers have developed a robot insect for artificial pollination to underpin an entirely indoor farm ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Continental European snakes, geckos and Italian wall lizards are making their way to northern Europe undetected among imports ...

Pollinators, including bees, butterflies, beetles, and certain birds, are essential for transferring pollen from one flower ...