October 9, 2009 – If you have ever taken a long road trip, the windshield of your car will inevitably be splattered with bugs by the time you arrive at your destination. Could the DNA left behind be ...

Have you hit a cicada while driving 50 mph? The bugs leave a messy splatter mark on your vehicle. And when they collide into your windshield at 60-plus mph, there’s an explosion of bug guts that can ...

When bugs explode against the wings of oncoming airplanes, they create a sticky problem for aerospace engineers. “A bug doesn’t know that it’s been catastrophically destroyed,” says Emilie J. (Mia) ...

NASA’s been studying the way bugs splatter for years. Those gooey speckles of black and red might be gross to you, but to aerospace engineers, they’re a riddle that’s plagued the industry for decades.

Dead bugs splattered in the front of a minivan - Rivernorthphotography/Getty Images You step out of your car after a long haul in the middle of summer and realize the front end has turned into a ...

Trials began Wednesday at Shreveport Regional Airport for a research project being conducted by NASA Research in Langley and Boeing. The project, called the Insect Accretion Mitigation, is testing ...

Driving isn't really driving until you are up high in the cushioned seat of a 1903 Winton Touring Car racing along at 30 mph. It is a feeling of exhilaration, of freedom, of adventure, as the wind ...

Nasa is testing non-stick aircraft wings that let bug guts slick off them during flight. Insects can cause chaos to commercial flights on occasion -- in 2010 the Civil Aviation Safety Authority in ...

NASA and Boeing are in Shreveport testing a bug-phoebic material for airplane wings. Lynn Kimsey, an entomologist in Shreveport this week on a NASA and Boeing project testing bug-phoebic materials for ...

If you have ever taken a long road trip, the windshield of your car will inevitably be splattered with bugs by the time you arrive at your destination. Could the DNA left behind be used to estimate ...