Learn how surface tension enables water striders to skate, and how nature’s tiny engineering marvels inspire robotics.

The peppermint stick insect packs a peppermint-scented blast powerful enough to fend off hungry predators in Australia’s ancient Daintree rainforest. Check out how this clumsy vegetarian survives ...

Peppermint stick insect packs a peppermint-scented blast powerful enough to fend off hungry predator The peppermint stick insect packs a peppermint-scented blast powerful enough to fend off hungry ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...

Sitting is the new smoking, or so many headlines have told us. While that’s largely an exaggeration (smoking is dangerous in ways sitting can’t hope to imitate) it’s true that being sedentary is ...

In Europe and other spots around the globe, it’s common to see people striding around the countryside with trekking poles in hand. Many folks even click their way through city centers with these poles ...

Humans have been eating insects for millennia, but despite the uncomfortable feelings a bug-based diet might evoke in cultures not used to their consumption, they could form a vital part of future ...

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Few creatures in nature can camouflage themselves as convincingly as a group of insects known as “walking leaves.” Using specimens from museum and private collections, researchers have identified ...

While training for the Sydney Marathon, I missed a few of my weekday runs – something that’s normal, if not inevitable. But when I fretted over a missed run one evening, a friend said something that ...

FENTRESS COUNTY, Tenn. — The Fentress County District Attorney General's office released several new details after a 71-year-old man was accused of killing a neighbor with a walking stick after a ...