An international team of scientists has created cyborg cockroaches, with electronics wired to their nervous systems that allow them to be remote controlled. The researchers fitted wireless control ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a defense lab in Germany, a small startup is wiring live cockroaches with AI-guided backpacks and turning them into steerable scouts that can slip through cracks no drone or soldier could reach.

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...