The American cockroach is the largest common house cockroach, about the length of a AA battery. Also called the water bug, it can live for a week without its head. It eats just about anything, ...

In the quiet corners of American homes, a silent health crisis unfolds nightly. While most homeowners view cockroaches as mere nuisances, mounting scientific evidence reveals these persistent invaders ...

A female cockroach “Piniblattella yixianesis” center, with a long ootheca at the end of her abdomen, pauses on a tree trunk in an early Cretaceous forest. (Artwork by Dr Chen Wang) Very early on, ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

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 ...

Summer in Northern California invites cockroaches into many unwanted areas in our lives, including in our homes, yards and even on the street — such as in sewer manholes and drains. And with ...