Welcome to The Athletic Speed Bag, a semi-regular roundup of all things bizarre, macabre and wonderful in the fight game. As HBO’s legendary ringside analyst Larry Merchant famously said, boxing is ...

As if giant cockroaches weren't freaky enough already, new research shows the insects have learned how to gallop. A study published in Frontiers in Zoology found that giant cockroaches can increase ...

Imagine that an earthquake strikes, and you’re trapped under rubble. You’re hoping a firefighter or maybe a rescue dog will show up. But the first responder who shines that light on your face turns ...

Have you ever thought you’d be seeing a cyborg cockroach that runs on solar power and carries a backpack that looks like an electric circuit? A team of researchers at Japan’s RIKEN research institute ...

Company sees the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown and work-from-home demands as accelerating demand for distributed, cloud-native IT. Cockroach Labs, developer of enterprise-class distributed SQL database ...