Fifteen-year-old Brandon Spurling plunged a death's head cockroach into a glass of ice water to anesthetize it before performing surgery on the bug. His goal was to take over the insect by using a ...

An international team of scientists has created cyborg cockroaches, with electronics wired to their nervous systems that allow them to be remote controlled. The researchers fitted wireless control ...

DDT is regarded as a nerve poison in insects and mammals chiefly from the symptomological, electrophysiological and biochemical points of view 1,2. The actual mechanism of DDT poisoning at the target, ...