Scientists are unraveling the mystery of a bug with one of the coolest names in the animal kingdom: the diabolical ironclad beetle. Phloeodes diabolicus has one of the toughest natural exoskeletons ...

Drive over the beetle in your car and it won't even break a sweat. How does it do it? Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, ...