A newly identified spider, Pikelinia floydmuraria, is catching scientists’ attention for what it can do despite being only a few millimeters long. Living quietly in wall crevices, it manages to ...

True bugs rarely bother people; most itchy welts come from flies such as mosquitoes, blackflies and deer flies — each with ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their size possible. A new study overturns that idea, revealing insect flight ...

Descending neurons that encode widefield motion vision in the fly have sexually dimorphic velocity tuning, while the wing beat amplitude, which these neurons presumably control, is monomorphic.

Since its publication in 1954, the William Golding novel Lord of the Flies has been one of the most popular books on many high school reading lists. It's about a group of British schoolboys who ...

"Lord of the Flies" is so much more than you remember. The classic 1954 William Golding novel has been a staple of high school English classes for decades, and one of the most formative works of ...

'Adolescence' scribe Jack Thorne brings Piggy, Ralph, Jack and their island-paradise-gone-wrong to life in a limited-series take on the classic novel. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Lord ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jack Thorne, who co-wrote last year’s prize-winning “Adolescence,” returns with another story of fractured ...

A recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, Nina started at CNET writing breaking news stories before shifting to covering Security Security and other government benefit programs. In her spare ...

Fly anglers love studying aquatic insects because imitating those bugs is how they catch fish. And while the world of aquatic insects is vast and can be extremely complex, the basics are simple. Four ...