Potent herbs like basil, mint, sage and rosemary are great for topping spaghetti or making mojitos, but their scent stops insects like house and fruit flies from coming near.

Late last year, Pat Hannon started waking up in the middle of the night with an excruciating itching sensation on her legs.

Many critical military conflicts never get much publicity. Sometimes it's because they involve espionage, often it's because the media never really gets interested. Here are ten in alphabetical order ...

You probably won’t see them, but they’re there. A tiny invasive critter has the potential to wreak havoc on PNW forests.

Artisan reveals how she combines fabric and organic material to create the Oscar-nominated costumes of Guillermo del Toro's epic monster movie.

The memories came flooding back as I walked into what once was the lodge of the legendary Little Siberia duck hunting club in southeast Arkansas. This club on 600-acre Rogers Reservoir was famous for ...

This leaf beetle looks amazing, but does like to chomp through - yes you guessed it - asparagus plants. Asparagus beetles, or Crioceris asparagi, are amazingly colourful, however, and despite them ...

When astronomers glimpsed the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in July 2022, they saw the kind of universe most of them have come to expect. There were dazzling blue bursts of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big Bang. In so doing, scientists hoped to gain a better understanding of how ...

The Little Rascals character Bug Hall, who started his career as a child actor, later became a Hollywood star who lived his life under public scrutiny. The child star who first achieved fame in ...

The rice delphacid is no longer merely a Texas problem. This tiny planthopper, common in Texas ratoon rice, showed up this year in the main Texas rice crop. Infestations also occurred in Arkansas, ...

Motorized vehicles on Palm Beach’s waterfront Lake Trail? Not now, but they were once popular on the trail — even to race. Yes, motorized vehicles are restricted due to recent and decades-old rules ...