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The German cockroach is an indoor pest that is found across the world. Science has finally solved the mystery of its origin. The cockroach, contrary to popular belief, isn’t one species. There are ...

As cold weather approaches, you may start seeing pests such as stink bugs and boxelder bugs entering your home. While those invaders are mainly nuisances, cockroaches are a different story. "Many ...

Marlene Zuk would like people to think more about creatures we usually avoid. Zuk, an evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Minnesota, writes about rats and other urban visitors in ...

Generally when people think about cockroaches they consider them pests or signs of uncleanliness and squalor. However now, thanks to some intrepid scientists in Japan, a cockroach just might be the ...

Exterminators say the Turkestan cockroach has become one of the most common roaches in the Sacramento region — and it is ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The mystery of just how the notorious cockroach became one of the most ...

For most people, cockroaches don’t have a reputation worth memorializing. At an apartment complex in Chattanooga, Tennessee, though, tenants found the death of a roach deserving — so much so that ...

A thin band of light from Cristian Lucanas's headlamp pierces the blackness of a Philippine rainforest as he digs through the underbrush before gently scooping up a cockroach with his bare hands. As ...

Like most real-world problems, physics can get very complicated. When a physicist considers the fate of this falling cockroach, their first step is to change the problem into something simpler. It's ...