Imagine you are flipped upside down and standing on your head. After a few seconds, you would feel pressure in your head due to an increased blood flow. Humans and other vertebrates are known to have ...

Biologists have discovered mosquitoes possess a previously unknown mechanism for destroying pathogens that takes advantage of the peculiarities of the insect’s circulatory system to increase its ...

BLACKSBURG — Insects do all sorts of acrobatics, buzzing about flowers or creeping along the undersides of leaves. But until recently, no one paid much mind to how gravity affects their tiny bodies.