In a defense lab in Germany, a small startup is wiring live cockroaches with AI-guided backpacks and turning them into steerable scouts that can slip through cracks no drone or soldier could reach.

CEO Stefan Wilhelm told CBS the choice of insect was deliberate. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is large enough to carry small payloads, resilient under extreme conditions, ...

Germany's defense ministry is now funding tests to see if hissing cockroaches from Madagascar can be used as reconnaissance drones on the battlefield. It sounds like something out of a futuristic ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Aliza Chasan ...

Megaloblatta falls under the kingdom Animalia and phylum Arthropoda. It is further placed under class Insecta and order Blattodea, which encompasses all cockroaches. Within this order, it falls under ...

Some cockroaches like to cuddle. You’re just going to have to trust Kathleen Walker about that. The University of Arizona entomologist and educator has been working with giant Madagascar hissing ...

When conditions get too dry, Madagascar hissing cockroaches like to "cuddle." Under certain conditions, the large insects gather in groups, with many participants in physical contact with one another.

When conditions get too dry, Madagascar hissing cockroaches like to "cuddle". Under certain conditions, the large insects gather in groups, with many participants in physical contact with one another.

Cockroach infestations can worsen allergies and asthma in children, especially in low-income urban homes. One particular species of cockroach is known to carry bacteria in their guts that release ...

Every driver knows that feeling. Something’s off. The car sounds different, and it’s not going away. The human ear picks up on changes in mechanical rhythm faster than most people realize, and these ...

ONCE AGAIN LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT WITH ITS POPULAR FALL CELEBRATION. SPIRIT OF THE GARDENS KICKS OFF TOMORROW. IT RUNS THROUGH THIS WEEKEND. MORE THAN A THOUSAND HAND CARVED JACK O LANTERNS WILL BE ON ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches from the Scovill Zoo visited the WAND news studio on October 8. The creepy crawlies made their on-air debut for the month of October in honor of ...