Seven species of a frog-like insect that were discovered in a rainforest have been confirmed as new to science following an examination of their genitalia. The previously unknown species of leafhopper ...

Big and small: RUSH image of the brain of a live mouse. The coloured lines show the motions of labelled immune cells. The image is about 1 cm across. (Courtesy: Jingtao Fan et al/Nature Photonics) A ...

When the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County shut down due to the pandemic in mid-March, Lisa Gonzalez headed home with the expectation that she would be back in a few weeks. But once it ...

Researchers from Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), part of Wageningen University & Research, have developed a method for detecting microplastics in farmed insects. This is important because ...

A large survey of nearly 1,400 invertebrates in China found Blastocystis DNA most often in insects, with subtypes ST1, ST2, and ST3 isolated from bumblebees, lacewings, and houseflies, suggesting ...