Another Reason the City Never Sleeps: More Bedbugs
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Officials are confounded about the best way to respond to the growing nuisance, according to city officials.
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Sub-Saharan bug builds huge, self-cooled nests. Research involves energy efficiency for skyscrapers.
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Human skin teems with a zoo of strange microbes in colonies that are nearly unique from person to person and many of which are practically unknown to science, new research finds. Some of the bugs are permanent residents, while others come and go.
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Bedsores may seem simple, but they are a serious matter for medical professionals.
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By KEN MAGUIRE BOSTON - More than 10 blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon.
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Think the inexorable spread of cities is a bad thing? Think again.
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HALIFAX -- The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax announced yesterday it had
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Another victim of gentrification: the Playpen sex shop.
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A new study suggests that people living in sprawling suburbs are more prone to chronic physical health problems than people living in compact urban areas.
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KANNAPOLIS, N.C.  - After a more than a century of  churning out towels, sheets and bedspreads for American homes,  there's no future for textiles in this self-proclaimed "city of  looms," and many other North Carolina towns fear the same fate.
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By Stephen T. Watson, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Jun. 5--At Maple West Elementary School, a class of second-graders pulled together a polished PowerPoint presentation on all sorts of creepy-crawly bugs.
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It sounds like a horror movie: 720,000 ladybugs on the attack in Manhattan.
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NEW YORK  - Teenagers who usually fall into  bed at 2 am each night and get up a few hours later to make  their 8 am classes are putting themselves at risk for more than  chronic tiredness.
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Even as the world's urban population explodes, many cities face potential extinction.
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If there are aspects of Craig Hansen's sidetracked career that resemble a waking nightmare, you should know that it has been far worse when the Red Sox reliever was sleeping. Just ask any of his roommates in the last few years.
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Last month, finally, Bendu Simpson told her young daughter about the ticking clock that keeps  Mom awake at night: Come October, no more karate class, no more zoo trips to see the otters, no more zipping around smooth suburban streets on your purple scooter. No more toilets, showers or central air.
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Advertising space is scarce. No wonder advertisers are innovative when it comes to taking advantage of under-utilized real estate - such as the human skin.