Cockroach gut microbes can rapidly degrade polystyrene, demonstrating their potential for plastic bioremediation.

BOSTON - NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back. The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had ...

Scientists have discovered that, far from being solitary insects, some cockroaches appear to form an exclusive bond with a ...

Anil Oza, STAT’s Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow, used to research and teach neurophysiology to college students using snails and crayfish. Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT ...

Cockroaches have some of the worst PR in the animal kingdom. With a better agent, their story could be that of a hardy insect that has successfully thrived on every continent except Antarctica. People ...

Plastic pollution remains one of the most persistent environmental crises, with polystyrene (PS) among the hardest polymers to break down due to its ...