MIT’s new insect-sized hopping robot combines the best of both worlds. Interestingly, this hopping robot is smaller than a thumb and lighter than a paper clip. The robot jumps 20 cm high in the air ...

A hopping, insect-sized robot can jump over gaps or obstacles, traverse rough, slippery, or slanted surfaces, and perform aerial acrobatic maneuvers, while using a fraction of the energy required for ...

Insect-scale robots can squeeze into places their larger counterparts can't, like deep into a collapsed building to search ...

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Food Editor Emma Waldinger gets a taste of entomophagy — the practice of eating insects — in Madison. Literally.

While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect ...

Most insects are unstudied, but scientists created a global framework to understand and protect them using all available knowledge.

Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and ...