We often imagine mythical beasts or sci-fi creations when we think of creatures that can defy the odds and survive in the ...

In 2022, a Melbourne start-up announced they’d taught neurons in a dish to play Pong. Now, they’re selling a 'biological ...

An international team of researchers reports the first known artificial nerve that can detect pressure—and even move the detached leg of a cockroach after the device was attached to the tissue. The ...

This insect looks—and sounds—like anything but a run-of-the-mill roach. Madagascar hissing cockroaches are one of many fascinating animal species to hail from the island of Madagascar.

Pacific beetle-mimic cockroaches may look much like other cockroaches, but they do something no other cockroach does: they give birth to live young. Instead of laying eggs, Diploptera punctata females ...

Filled with hundreds of thousands of lab-made neurons sized somewhere between an ant and cockroach brain, CL1 is primed to learn. But even Dr Kagan can't imagine exactly what the human neurons ...