The tropical illness can quietly attack your heart if left untreated. Here’s what a leading scientist says we can do to ...

Researchers have confirmed the presence of "kissing bugs" that carry the Chagas disease in Wyoming. The CDC says the parasitic disease is often fatal ...

Insect eyes are a wonder of natural engineering. Anyone can tell that bug eyes are special in a complex way with just one glance at their shape and construction. But when you get down into this marvel ...

Though some researchers believe it should be labeled endemic in the United States, most Americans don’t need to worry about ...

The CDC has issued a warning about triatomines, a bloodsucking insect known as “kissing bugs” whose bites are often anything ...

Robots are getting down to the size of insects, so it seems only natural that they should be getting insect eyes. A consortium of European researchers has developed the artificial Curved Artificial ...

Chagas, or “kissing bug” disease, has been identified in 19 states. The bug that carries it has made it to Pennsylvania, ...

Almost all of our cameras form images by using a single lens to focus light onto a light-sensitive sheet. That’s how our own eyes actually work, but there are many other ways of seeing the world.

Chagas disease​ is already endemic to 21 countries in the Americas, and growing evidence of the parasite is challenging the ...

A smartphone can tell you where to get a cup of coffee, but it can't go get the coffee for you. Engineers would like to build little machines that can do stuff. They would be useful for a lot more ...