It’s instinctive: you see a cockroach, and you crush it. Or you run away. However, entomologists advise against the former because cockroaches can support 900 times their weight. Lightly stepping on ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cockroaches might not be nature's most indestructible organism, but they're generally known to be pretty hardy insects. Most of us have ...

A new insect-sized robot can scurry across the floor at nearly the speed of a darting cockroach -- and it's nearly as hardy as a cockroach, too: Try to squash this robot under your foot, and more than ...