Kent State assistant professor Matthew S. Lehnert has been interested in insects and microscopy since childhood. Lehnert and his students research how insects eat and the role of metals in their ...

From Franklin's "Join or Die" woodcuts to editorial cartoons, the AIDS crisis to Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, art has captured America's struggles.

The problem with diffusion is that it’s notoriously slow. The oxygen constraint hypothesis argued that the larger the insect grows, the further the oxygen must travel to reach the deepest tissues. “As ...

Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.

Pierre Deschamps has a passion for storytelling and retro-futurism.

Abstract: The system presented in this paper finds images and line-drawings in scanned pages; it is a crucial processing step in the creation of a large-scale system to detect and index images found ...

Spend any time in your yard during the warmer months, and you will likely encounter a few yellow jackets or paper wasps ...

What are black flies? Black flies are tiny, pesky insects that often get mistaken for mosquitoes. The biting flies breed near ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in ...

Embarking on a treasure hunt for the art and artifacts held by the Los Angeles Unified School District is no small feat. The ...

Schaechter's immersive sculpture comprises 65 panes fit into a wooden frame, and it took nearly two years to complete.