Cockroach gut microbes can rapidly degrade polystyrene, demonstrating their potential for plastic bioremediation.

Scientists have discovered that, far from being solitary insects, some cockroaches appear to form an exclusive bond with a partner. And how do they get this relationship off the ground? By eating each ...

Plastic pollution remains one of the most persistent environmental crises, with polystyrene (PS) among the hardest polymers ...

Cockroaches have some of the worst PR in the animal kingdom. With a better agent, their story could be that of a hardy insect that has successfully thrived on every continent except Antarctica. People ...

Anil Oza, STAT’s Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow, used to research and teach neurophysiology to college students using snails and crayfish. Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT ...

Hidden behind stacks of cardboard across factories in China, billions of cockroaches are quietly fueling a multi-million-dollar revolution that could change the way we eat and live. Humans may be ...