Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of ...

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it ...

Cordyceps is a real fungus that infects insects and takes control of their behavior. Once inside, it alters the host’s nervous system, forcing it to climb to higher ground before killing it and ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

In today’s illusion, there is a hidden insect. By carefully adjusting your focus and observing the repeating patterns, it can ...

The Eurasian common shrew reduces its brain and organs by up to 20 percent each winter, then regrows them using genetic switches.

Can trees tell when they are being eaten? Discover how trees sense insect attacks, defend themselves and play a vital role in nature’s food chain.

In this episode of Big Ideas from the team behind Deep Look, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the ...

Inside-out solar system, ancient Inuit seafarers in the High Arctic, infant brains categorize objects, and how plastic and ...

Supriya Chakraborty might have been studying insects in a lab had it not been for an immunology college instructor in India who taught him about the superheroes inside him—immune cells that wage a ...

In a new study that could have significant implications for future Alzheimer's treatment, researchers at the University of Miami have successfully figured out how to combat one of the early signs of ...