Sociologically, praying mantises might be introverts. Loners, they don’t seek contact with other mantids until it’s time to ...

A small blood-feeding fly found across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas undergoes one of the most dramatic lifestyle ...

After finding a host and shedding its wings for good, a blood-feeding fly appears to sacrifice some of its vision to better ...

There’s a place in North Freedom, Wisconsin where scrap metal comes to life in the most spectacular way imaginable, and ...

Long before birds ruled the skies, the dragonfly evolved a hunting strategy so effective that it still outperforms most predators today.

A newly identified trick in fly vision could help engineers build AI systems that react faster while using less energy. In a study that could have implications far beyond biology, researchers say ...

To resolve this paradox, we examined how fly visual circuits respond to rapid self-motion by presenting controlled saccadic stimuli - light patterns that approximate the temporal statistics of natural ...

Sometimes evolution arrives at the same “solution” twice, even in animals that are very distantly related. That’s the idea behind parallel evolution, and a new study suggests dragonflies may be a ...

A breakthrough technology has emerged to fundamentally solve the camera protrusion/thickness issue, which has been a persistent limitation as smart devices become thinner. A KAIST research team has ...

Vision is an essential part of attitude control for many flying animals, some of which have no dedicated sense of gravity. Flying robots, on the other hand, typically depend heavily on accelerometers ...

Taking inspiration from the compound eyes of the fruit fly — which are wide-angle and can process visual information much faster than the human eye — researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Here’s what compound eyes really do — and why flies see you in slow motion. In this episode of Big Ideas, Niba explores how insects actually see the world — from the structure of ommatidia to motion ...