If one hack that controls amputated cockroach legs this week wasn’t enough for you, we’ve got another. Earlier this week we saw two neuroscientists at Backyard Brains put on a show at a TED talk by ...

Neuroscientists [Tim Marzullo] and [Greg Gage] wanted a way to get kids interested in neuroscience. What they came up with isn’t terribly far from something found in Frankenstein’s lab; by amputating ...

Severed cockroach legs serve as training tool for next generation of engineers working on artificial limbs. Four University of Pennsylvania juniors crowd around a pair of severed cockroach legs. Steve ...

It’s a gray December day, but inside the University of Pennsylvania’s undergraduate bioengineering laboratory, the energy is high. The smell of pizza is in the air, and students cluster around their ...

A community science group in Chile called Thinker Thing has used an EEG headset to move the leg of a cockroach. Among the mood-reading headbands and brain-controlled helicopters we’ve encountered in ...

Why Are They Called Cockroaches? The name cockroach comes from the Spanish term cucaracha, which derives from the Latin ...

Cockroaches are often referred to as pests: a destructive insect or animal that disrupts both our homes and society. Their abilities to spread disease, cause allergic reactions and just be a pretty ...