Sarah Bradley is a writer with six years of experience creating personal essays, reported features, and content related to health and parenting topics. Cockroaches are common pests in homes, schools, ...

In the quiet corners of American homes, a silent health crisis unfolds nightly. While most homeowners view cockroaches as mere nuisances, mounting scientific evidence reveals these persistent invaders ...

The American cockroach is the largest common house cockroach, about the length of a AA battery. Also called the water bug, it can live for a week without its head. It eats just about anything, ...

A female cockroach “Piniblattella yixianesis” center, with a long ootheca at the end of her abdomen, pauses on a tree trunk in an early Cretaceous forest. (Artwork by Dr Chen Wang) Very early on, ...

The German cockroach is an indoor pest that is found across the world. Science has finally solved the mystery of its origin. The cockroach, contrary to popular belief, isn’t one species. There are ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...