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 ...

A Currier and Ives lithograph of the battle between the Monitor and the Virginia.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images As dawn broke over Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March ...

For engineers pursuing advanced, ultra-tough materials, it can pay to look to the natural world for inspiration, and the diabolical ironclad beetle is not a bad place to start. This critter can ...

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, ...

Few days opened more darkly for the U.S. Navy than March 9, 1862. Mangled by the lethal guns and armored sides of the CSS Virginia on the previous afternoon, the Union fleet in Hampton Roads still ...

March 9th marks 141 years since the famous Civil War naval battle between the first ironclad vessels, the Monitor and the Merrimack. Actually, the battle was waged between the Union ship Monitor and ...

"It was evident, cut off from all support, and with no possible hope of reinforcements from any quarter, that holding the fort was simply a question of time." From the beautiful view overlooking the ...