We often imagine mythical beasts or sci-fi creations when we think of creatures that can defy the odds and survive in the ...

Filled with hundreds of thousands of lab-made neurons sized somewhere between an ant and cockroach brain, CL1 is primed to learn. But even Dr Kagan can't imagine exactly what the human neurons ...

Cockroach Labs was dreamed up by former Google engineers Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and Ben Darnell as a scalable database for their fledgling photo-sharing app, Viewfinder (acquired by Square ...

An international team of researchers reports the first known artificial nerve that can detect pressure—and even move the detached leg of a cockroach after the device was attached to the tissue. The ...

Pacific beetle-mimic cockroaches may look much like other cockroaches, but they do something no other cockroach does: they give birth to live young. Instead of laying eggs, Diploptera punctata females ...