Does a lobster feel pain – or even anguish and terror – when it's faced with a boiling pot of water in a busy kitchen? It's a ...

You’ve probably never seen a Dracula ant, as these elusive insects spend their days tunneling through the leaf litter and soil of tropical forests in Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia — rarely ...

Have you ever noticed that spiders curl up when they die? There’s a scientific reason for that. While humans use muscles for both extension and contraction, spiders use muscles to pull legs in but ...

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans.

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Superbugs that are resistant to existing antibiotics are a growing health problem around the world. Globally, nearly five million people die from antimicrobial resistant infections each year. The ...

Abstract: This paper repots a demonstration of an IC driving by a trehalose biofuel cell (BFC) mounted on insects. First, we evaluated a trehalose oxidized anode. Then, we fabricated an ...

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience. Laboratory of Insect Nutrition ...

Insect blood is very different from our own. It lacks hemoglobin and platelets, and uses amoeba-like cells called hemocytes to protect the immune system instead of red blood cells. This insect ...

Blood is a remarkable material: it must remain fluid inside blood vessels, yet clot as quickly as possible outside them, to stop bleeding. The chemical cascade that makes this possible is well ...

When you get hurt, your body forms a blood clot to stop bleeding. But what about insects? Researchers have recently shed light on how caterpillars can quickly stop bleeding, a phenomenon that has ...