Diatomaceous earth works similarly to boric acid: when cockroaches walk over it, it gets onto to their exoskeleton, damaging ...

This property originates from the formation of a cholesteric liquid crystal phase with an optically active, helical structure during chrysalis during exoskeleton formation and the solidification ...

We discovered that cockroaches traversed horizontal crevices smaller than a quarter of their height in less than a second by compressing their bodies’ compliant exoskeletons in half. Once inside ...

We discovered that small, rapid running cockroaches use robust exoskeletons like automobile bumpers to collide head-on into obstacles and transition up a vertical wall at the fastest escape speeds ...

In the wild, Madagascan Hissing Cockroaches live in Madagascar. Child: His body feels very smooth! Maddie: That is Craig's hard exoskeleton. He has no bones inside his body, so he needs this outer ...