The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Scientists are exploring whether human DNA could ever merge with insect DNA through natural processes raising ethical, ...

B iological warfare has been used for many years. One type in particular, entomological warfare, or the use of insects in ...

Researchers at Michigan State University studied how insects can help humans detect lung cancer weeks earlier than scans ...

A new study released today shakes up the scientific understanding of venom and proposes a radical redefinition that means the saliva of aphids and chemicals released by slugs will join the bites of ...

In her first work to be translated into English (by Pablo Strauss), Québec City-based poet, short story writer and novelist ...

They don’t have that capacity,” he said. “We’ll have to see what happens. Maybe it won’t be necessary. Maybe it won’t be necessary.” He said it would be a matter of “weeks or months” until Iran had a ...

This month, three Chinese nationals were charged with smuggling biological agents into the United States. The attempts could be part of a biological weapons attack on America's farms and ranches ...

We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. OpenAI’s next artificial intelligence models might carry a higher risk of being used to help create biological weapons.

Ladybugs, lacewings, and other beneficial insects feed on plant pests and naturally make gardens more pest-resistant. But like pollinators, these “good bugs" also feed on nectar and pollen, and ...

Potential use of tactical nuclear weapons by the United States in Iran would be a catastrophic development, Russian state news agency TASS quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday.