Fifteen-year-old Brandon Spurling plunged a death's head cockroach into a glass of ice water to anesthetize it before performing surgery on the bug. His goal was to take over the insect by using a ...

Cyborg cockroaches sound like something ripped straight from a video game. But scientists have managed to wire a chip to the nervous systems of a Madagascar cockroach allowing them to tell it where to ...

The latest robo-roach advance utilizes a flexible solar cell to power a circuit that plugs right into the insect's nervous system. Press a button, and the roach does as commanded. What could go wrong?

INFORMATION concerning electrical activity within the central nervous system of the higher invertebrate phyla is unusually meagre. This has been partially due to the inadequacy of recording techniques ...