In the famous fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, no one can forget about the dreaded, red apple that the evil queen makes Snow White eat. But did you know that during the 18th Century, there ...

A new documentary called "The President and the Dragon" looks at the late former President Jimmy Carter's effort to eradicate guinea worm, a parasite once found across Africa and parts of Asia. Since ...

Plus: An investigation reveals how US tech companies reportedly helped build China’s sweeping surveillance state, and two more alleged members of the Scattered Spider hacking group were arrested.

A new supply chain attack on npm, the node package manager, has injected the first malware with self-replicating worm behaviour into the JavaScript software registry, security firms say. Security ...

For the third time in just a few weeks, experts are warning of a significant threat to the open source npm ecosystem, after discovering a first-of-its-kind worm designed to steal secrets. On Monday, ...

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on ...

A year after a glitch at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike triggered a global computer outage affecting millions of computers, the software vendor is being forced to contain a new threat: a swarm of ...

It sounds like you have tomato fruitworms to contend with in your garden. I haven’t seen these pests in the tomatoes in my garden at home (our dachshunds eating ripening tomatoes have been a bigger ...

Yes, this is a hornworm. And yes, it looks a lot like a tomato worm or a tobacco worm. And lucky for this hornworm, it doesn’t feast on tomato leaves. It eats the leaves of several native plants, ...

Richard Gerhold works for the University of Tennessee and his research lab offers to perform serology tests for moose and elk for wildlife groups, as mentioned in the article, but this service is not ...

Specifically threadworms, which – I didn’t realise until I had kids – is quite a common problem for young ’uns. Threadwords – or pinworms, as they’re sometimes known – are small white worms that can ...