Of all the household pests, the cockroach is probably the most hated. With its tough looking exterior, imposing size, and ability to survive extreme conditions, this pest is a creepy-crawly that we ...

Using genetics to identify the origin and the global path of the ubiquitous insect pest, the German cockroach, back to its wild origin could help us develop more effective pesticides to control them.

A week before Christmas in 1983, two chemists at Yale University made a breakthrough that they thought could change the world. “It was like opening up a door and seeing a light,” one of the scientists ...