A tool for examining hovering flight of insects and birds could allow researchers to study other matters pertaining to locomotion, Stephen Childress, a professor at New York University's Courant ...

A new family of glycerol transporters may help to explain why insects are the most successful group of organisms in the history of life. Excluding bacteria, insects represent more than half of the ...

Insects outnumber humans, and indeed almost all animals, in the number of organisms belonging to this class. Scientists say they make up over 950,000 insect species, with about 25,000 being bees, ...

Insect colonies, although composed of many critters, function in a manner similar to individual organisms, according to a new study. The results suggest that these colonies act like "superorganisms," ...

What's the best way to keep an insect from exploding in a powerful vacuum? Wrap it in a tiny spacesuit. Scanning electron microscopes (SEM) provide incredibly detailed images of biological specimens, ...

Students set sticky traps to collect organisms, identify and classify the organisms they find, and determine when the organisms first evolved. Every school and home contains organisms. Many are too ...