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Feb. 23, 2021 A new study has discovered that not all cockroaches are equal and 'super athletes' are more likely to win physical mating battles. The researchers scored aggressive interactions and carried ...
Oct. 20, 2023 Researchers are studying the dramatic physical transformation that some insects undergo to give birth to live young. This includes suppressing their immune systems to accommodate babies, which is ...
Jan. 14, 2022 Researchers have completed a comprehensive analysis of the head width of over 1500 modern and fossilized species of termites and determined that their size isn't shrinking at a geological ...
May 12, 2022 How does a cockroach's aversion to sugar turn into an aversion to mating? Researchers discover the mechanism behind this ...
Dec. 9, 2020 Cockroaches are notorious for their abilities to survive and reproduce, much to humanity's chagrin. In addition to scurrying around at night, feeding on human and pet food, and generating an ...
May 16, 2022 Researchers have developed a CRISPR-Cas9 approach to enable gene editing in cockroaches, according to a new study. The simple and efficient technique, named 'direct parental' CRISPR ...
July 28, 2022 Insects like biting flies and cockroaches are not likely to spread the agent of COVID-19 to humans, according to a recently published ...
Aug. 28, 2023 An international research team has described seven previously unknown species of leaf insects, also known as walking leaves. The insects belong to the stick and leaf insect order, which are known for ...
May 23, 2022 A comprehensive family tree, based on DNA sequences, has revealed that drywood termites have made at least 40 oceanic journeys over the last 50 million years to reach far flung ...
Sep. 6, 2022 Abrahamic texts treat slithering as a special indignity visited on the wicked serpent, but evolution may draw a more continuous line through the motion of swimming microbes, wriggling worms, ...