Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology report the discovery of at least six orders of endosymbiont Symbiodolus clandestinus, which lives inside insect cells. Using fluorescence in ...

Before you get out the pesticide this season, here are the common bugs and insects that you actually need in your backyard to ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

As the weather warms up, few of us can resist a nice evening walk through the park or a trip to the countryside to immerse ourselves in natural surroundings. The summer can be wonderful, but all too ...

MicroRNAs are found to regulate various biological processes which are produced from precursor microRNA. As the length of such microRNA are small, homology-based searching is not very useful. Hence, ...

Whereas humans have one receptor on their tongues that can detect all sorts of sweet things, from real sugar to artificial sweeteners like aspartame, insects have many receptors that each detect ...