In addition to providing coloration, the exoskeletal shell of beetles needs to be strong and damage tolerant, researchers explain. Beetles are creatures with built-in body armor. They are tiny tanks ...

Fossils tend to offer a black-and-white view of the past, but new research on prehistoric beetles brings the insects' flashy metallic colors back to vivid life. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Beetles that can see the color red? That s exactly what scientists discovered in two Mediterranean species that defy the norm of insect vision. While most insects are blind to red, these beetles use ...

I was at Heil Ranch, working on a study of mountain pine beetles with my graduate student Scott Ferrenberg, when a brilliantly colored beetle landed on our equipment. I picked it up and confined it ...

3D printing has become mainstream. For a few hundred euros you can buy a 3D printer online. But what about 4D printing? How do you print an object that can change over time, for example by reacting to ...

Beetles are creatures with built-in body armor. They are tiny tanks covered with hard shells, also known as exoskeletons, protecting their soft, skeleton-less bodies inside. In addition to providing ...

Fossils tend to offer a black and white view of the past, but new research on prehistoric beetles brings the insects' flashy metallic colors back to vivid life. The findings, published in the journal ...

I was at Heil Ranch, working on a study of mountain pine beetles with my graduate student Scott Ferrenberg, when a brilliantly colored beetle landed on our equipment. I picked it up and confined it ...