WASHINGTON — They look like scary spiders, live in the dark and can jump more than a foot with each hop. Plus, they scare the heck out of people who are squeamish about bugs. "They're a menace to ...

The pest goes by many names. I have a friend who calls them mutant spiders. The exterminator at my neighbor's house calls them criders. The bug is also called spider cricket, spricket, cave cricket ...

When it's time to design new robots, sometimes the best inspiration can come from Mother Nature. Take, for example, her creepy, but incredibly athletic spider crickets. Johns Hopkins engineering ...

Temperatures may have warmed back up to late-summer range, but recent nighttime forays into the 50s have already brought the chirping of crickets around the outside of houses, and sometimes even ...

If you watch science fiction movies, the robots of the future look like us. The truth is, though, many tasks go better when robots don’t look like us. Sometimes they are unique to a particular job or ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are dissecting crickets' jumps, not with a scalpel, but with high-speed cameras to analyze their patterns of movement. Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are finding amazing things by studying spider crickets. More from Tech Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are finding amazing ...

Researcher Malcolm Burrows was sitting next to a South African pond eating lunch one day when he heard an odd noise coming from the water. What he found surprised him: pygmy mole crickets hopping off ...

While annual nuisances such as stink bugs and ladybugs have started to nestle away, more recent invaders to the region — camel crickets — have made themselves right at home. If you live in a house ...

Inside a warehouse in an industrial Van Nuys neighborhood, thousands of mature crickets engage in uninhibited stridulation as their landlords look on. For some people, the mating calls may symbolize ...