The secret behind insects' lightning-fast reactions could offer a blueprint for more energy-efficient robots and self-driving cars, according to a new study challenging our understanding of how brains ...

The society you live in can shape the complexity of your brain—and it does so differently for social insects than for humans and other vertebrate animals. A new comparative study of social and ...

We humans are versatile and accomplished navigators, but insects might have navigation skills that are even better. For them, it's literally a matter of life and death—and that's why we decided to ...

For years, scientists believed that only humans and a handful of vertebrates could tell the difference between short and long durations, a skill as fundamental as reading the dots and dashes of Morse ...

Like most animals, insects rely on eyesight for orientation. In order for them to get the best possible picture of their surroundings, input from photoreceptors in the eye must be processed afterwards ...

But spoiler alert — this is not how insects see. Hi, I’m Niba, and today we’re going to explore how insects really see the world. We’ll make our own camera to demonstrate how our eyes work, figure out ...

The secret behind insects' lightning fast reactions could offer a blueprint for more energy efficient robots and self-driving cars, according to a new study challenging our understanding of how brains ...