Flying robots have some big advantages over their ground-going counterparts, but they're definitely not very energy-efficient ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

MIT’s new insect-sized hopping robot combines the best of both worlds. Interestingly, this hopping robot is smaller than a ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

You can use the base pattern of an Adams fly to tie a very common fly in the spring called the Blue-Winged Olive, which attracts lots of fish. You can even give these patterns a little parachute, a ...

Most insects also have wings, although a few, like fleas, don't. All have compound eyes, which means insects see very differently from the way people see. Instead of one lens per eye, they have many: ...

Tiny leaf buds are forming on the apple and dogwood trees in Chris Kuhlow’s Port Jefferson Station backyard, and leaves are ...

Spring is harvest season when you're living off the land in the high Arctic. Here's how the author learned from Inupiat ...