How AI could improve robotics, the cockroach’s origins, and promethium spills its secrets. ... I'm very happy to do that, because I know the difference between those things as well.

A ubiquitous household pest has unexpected origins. A cockroach that lives in human dwellings all over the world is known as the German cockroach — but it did not come from Germany originally.

Zoos throughout the country are continuing the unorthodox Valentine’s Day tradition of naming animals and critters after exes — some of which will meet an unfortunate end in nature’s food chain.

Cockroaches that ate Apollo 11's moon dust are up for sale. NASA ain't happy about it NASA is trying to prevent an auction house from selling an unusual mixture of space memorabilia.

It's a cockroach. Yes, you read that right. As Twitter would put it, a tiny cockroach was seen making its debut on the red carpet of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.