It may be the most unlikely athlete in the whole of creation, but the humble cockroach was yesterday finally given the recognition it deserves. No mean sprinter and more nimble than a circus acrobat, ...

LONDON — I'll get to the Olympics in a moment, but first a few words about humanity, which is doomed. I found out about this from a woman who was dressed as a giant cockroach. For the record, at the ...

Harvard scientists have packed the sensors and circuitry of their cockroach-sized HAMR robot into an even teeny-tinier structure the size of a penny. Dubbed HAMR-JR, the microrobot is about half the ...