Learn how this midge has a unique strategy for surviving what most organisms couldn’t.

As night falls over Australia’s forests, grasslands and backyards, the hidden world of nocturnal insects stirs to life.

This mechanism helps the insect cope with freezing temperatures and may have implications for human cryopreservation. “We were able to establish a method for rearing the Antarctic midge over a ...

The Antarctic midge is the only known insect native to Antarctica. (photo credit: Yuta Shimizu / Osaka Metropolitan University.) An international team of scientists led by Osaka Metropolitan ...

Flightless Antarctic midge (Belgica antarctica) is the only known insect native to Antarctica that is able to survive the extreme climate. Researchers have uncovered a part of the mystery of how ...

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In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we get an insight into life for Michel ...

Snow and ice loss warms the land surface and air, setting off a feedback loop of further ice loss. This destabilises the ...

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their ...