Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Here's a ...

A large wingless wood-eating cockroach, unique to Australia’s Lord Howe Island and thought extinct since the 1930s, has been rediscovered by a University of Sydney biology student. “For the first 10 ...

Researchers who synthesized an artificial sex pheromone have just discovered that it’s most useful application so far is . . . killing cockroaches? Female cockroaches, specifically the wood cockroach ...

Can you ever love a roach? The crucial role roaches play in ecosystems may surprise you! You need roaches in your life. No, not the few pest species you might recognize scurrying on the floor, but ...

Heat rising, air thickening and cockroaches flying are some of Louisianans' least favorite parts about summer. Though the insects' peak season typically begins in late June, the roaches are already ...