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Smart bugs inspire better robotics design

Last Updated: Friday, November 18, 2011, 12:37

Bugs which collectively thrive in challenging environments are inspiring scientists to design smart robots for diagnostics and drug delivery, computers and artificial intelligence.

Bugs generate power while cleaning nuclear waste

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 21:13

Researchers have figured out how a class of bugs can deliver double benefit -- generate power while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals.

Bugs made world`s biggest oil slick disappear fast

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 14:15

More than a year after the world`s biggest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, lingering questions about how it disappeared so quickly still exercise scientists.

Contaminated soap may have deadly bugs

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 20:23

Washing hands with contaminated soap can leave you with deadly bugs.

Celebs particularly vulnerable to bed bugs

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 19:44

Celebrities may be at higher risk of being bitten by bed bugs.

Bugs to reclaim rare metals from waste for clean energy

Last Updated: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 15:10

Bugs can be used to convert wastes from rare metals into high-value catalysts to generate energy.

Bugs Bunny to make a 3D comeback

Last Updated: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 14:19

Bugs Bunny – bunny rabbit from the 1940s is to make his 3D, CGI cinematic comeback.

Zac Efron loves eating bugs

Last Updated: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 15:22

Zac is very adventurous when it comes to food.

Assassin bugs stalk and lure their victim

Last Updated: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 21:42

A new study by scientists in Australia has shown that assassin bugs stalk their victim on its home territory, or lure it away and eat it.

New antibiotic effective against resistant bugs

Last Updated: Monday, December 7, 2009, 13:48

A potent new antibiotic has opened up completely new ways of knocking out resistant bugs, says a new study.

Getting bugs to clean up dirty oil fast

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 15:35

Microbiologists have used bugs to break down and remove toxic compounds from crude oil and tar sands.

Deadly bugs found in curry leaves to NY from India

Last Updated: Friday, July 31, 2009, 12:21

A specially trained detection dog sniffed out deadly citrus bugs from a packet of curry leaves sent here from southern Indian city of Kochi.