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 ...

Model organisms refer to non-human organisms that are used in the laboratory to understand the structure and function of animals by means of examining their biological processes. These are typically ...

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, ...

BETHESDA, Md., Tues., Mar. 1, 2005 – The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today that the Large-Scale Sequencing Research ...

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, ...

Insect-induced galls represent a fascinating mode of plant-insect interaction where specialised insects manipulate host plant tissues to form complex structures that provide both shelter and nutrients ...