RIVERWOODS, Ill. — The ground seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, pausing to ...

The visit of the 17-year cicadas isn't particularly long, but it can bring back memories of cicada summers from long ago.

Past the flats, in Samut Songkhram, a colossal Buddha rises in suspended creation. Its torso unfinished, scaffolding clinging ...

Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been identified from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messel ...

Cicada killer wasps are not harmful to humans. Unlike yellowjackets, cicada killers prefer to go it alone. They don’t live in large nests, which gives them little to defend, Larson said.

Michigan had more female lighthouse keepers than any other state between 1849 and 1954.

The United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, has appointed Blaise Metreweli as its chief, meaning it will be led by a female for the first time in its history.

Blaise Metreweli has been appointed the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, 30 years after Judi Dench played a fictional female MI6 chief in the James Bond films.

Sports Female athletes appeal landmark NCAA settlement, saying it violates federal antidiscrimination law Published: Jun. 12, 2025, 7:54 a.m.

Less than one week after Judge Claudia Wilken approved the House v. NCAA settlement, a group of female student-athletes has filed the first appeal.

Eight female athletes have filed an appeal of a landmark NCAA antitrust settlement. They argue that women would not receive their fair share of $2.7 billion in back pay for athletes who were barred ...