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A decline in flying bugs sounds good for humans, but it's bad for the environment Scott Simon talks to Matt Shardlow of UK conservation group Buglife about the decline in flying invertebrates in ...
A whole arm of robotics is focusing on insect-size robots – and smaller. What might humans be capable of if we could command a tiny army of simple machines that could fly, skim the water and ...
Researchers have mapped the more than 500,000 connections in the intricate brain of a fruit fly larva. This map, they say, could help scientists figure out how learning changes the human brain, too.
Bugs, well, bug a lot of people. ... A recent study in the journal PLoS One found that the number of flying insects is on the decline, and humans are most likely to blame.