It has come to light that an ongoing research program funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is working on a project using gene-editing techniques like CRISPR to infect ...

There are more kinds of insects in the world than all other organisms combined! Insects live on the earth's surface, in the soil, and in water - in deserts, rain forests, hot springs, snow fields, and ...

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Walking through the University of Minnesota Insect Collection, curator Robin Thomson pulls a series of cases from one of dozens of shelves lining the storage facility. Opening it up, she pulls out a ...

A new consortium has been launched to support the development of sustainable production and processing techniques for insect-based products in North-West Europe. FoodNavigator caught up with ValuSect ...

A new photography initiative is building a collection of high-resolution insect images and placing them online for anyone to download and use for free. The project, named "Insects Unlocked," was ...