A team of hilariously unqualified namers is tasked with naming insects, leading to a chaotic mix of logic, fear, and personal grievances. Some choices make sense—like naming a fly because it ...

Researchers have hacked living cockroaches to create new search-and-rescue tech.

What's worse, the stomach bug is getting harder to treat. For most of the cases in Toronto and Vancouver, no oral antibiotic therapies work. More severe cases require IV antibiotic treatment ...

Researchers studying crustaceans in Vietnam have identified a new "supergiant" sea bug species that bears a surprising resemblance to a classic movie villain. Deep-sea sea bugs, or the Bathynomus ...

A notoriously contagious stomach bug’s spread through Arlington has public health experts urging extra precautions. An alert about a wave of suspected norovirus cases went out to Arlington ...

A high-severity vulnerability in the 7-Zip file archiver allows attackers to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) Windows security feature and execute code on users' computers when extracting ...

No matter how careful you are about animals in your home, or how much care you take when you are outdoors, animal and insect bites and stings are sometimes unavoidable. Fleas, mites, and chiggers ...

The bug caused startup failures on servers with two or more NUMA nodes and was addressed through the release of update KB5052819. The company explained in the KB5052819 support document that "Some ...

Researchers named the supergiant sea bug B. vaderi because of the striking resemblance its head bears to the helmet worn by Star Wars antagonist Darth Vader. B. vaderi is an isopod, a type of ...

Microsoft has fixed a bug that was causing some Windows Server 2022 systems with two or more NUMA nodes to fail to start up. NUMA (short for non-uniform memory access) is a computer memory ...

However, ensuring a flourishing garden can be challenging, especially when it comes to pest management. While many gardeners resort to chemical treatments to fend off unwanted bugs, there’s a more ...

Formication, or parasitosis, is the sensation of having insects crawling on or under the skin. Formication is a tactile hallucination, which means a person feels a physical sensation without a ...