Sleep is a universal biological state that allows all animals, from mammals to amphibians, fish and even insects, to restore ...

As the climate changes, scientists are concerned about how well plants and animals will adapt to rapid warming. A new ...

Heavy use of a broad-spectrum pesticide seems to have slowed the desert locust invasion. What the repercussions of that approach are isn’t yet clear. Seen from the air at dawn, a swarm of desert ...

Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to find that he has turned into an insect. This is the moment Franz Kafka gives us in 'The Metamorphosis', published in 1915, and more than a century later, it still ...

THE wings of insects are outgrowths of the thorax, quite independent of the limbs. The difficulty of picturing their origin in evolution is that of imagining what selective value they could have had ...