Cordyceps fungi infect insects and begin to take control of their nervous system, manipulating their behavior and forcing ...

We’ve done the numbers and the verdict is in: honeybees do have the ability to process numerical information. New research led by Monash University has now addressed recent international debate over ...

A team of researchers from the Osaka Metropolitan University have found a specific insect that is able to see a shade of ...

While some people have the instinct to squish a bug in their home, if you catch bugs in your house and release them outside ...

Car driver who left window open gets nasty insect shock, woman gaming host in ‘male gaze’ controversy, surgeons pull parasite ...

An AI startup has built a virtual fruit fly powered by a digital brain model that drives real-like behaviour, hinting at ...

Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of "RAnts" that mirror the self-organizing genius of ant colonies to build and ...

The discovery points to something scientists did not expect from creatures with such small brains.

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...

In a first for small-brained animals, the study found that bumble bees can keep track of a beat even as it speeds up and down. USGS Bee Lab via Flickr Picking up on rhythm was long thought to have ...

Scientists find many animals communicate at the same rhythm, suggesting brains may be tuned to a shared processing pace.