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 ...

Not that long ago, you probably had to wipe bugs off your windshield, especially on trips up north. Bug splatter was one of the worst things about road trips, especially when it was hot out and they ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...