Pest attacks in marathon madness
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A DEFROCKED Irish priest in a kilt almost ruined the Olympic men&#39;s marathon by attacking the leading runner. Brazil&#39;s Vanderlei de Lima was in front, 5km from the finish, when serial protester Cornelius Horan
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The violence that has ripped through Kenya has made training for runners increasingly dangerous. Some of the sportâs biggest names remain unaccounted for in the chaos.
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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, Nova Scotia announced yesterday that
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Scientists analyze germs on people's skin and discover that we're literally crawling with the little buggers. In Bodyhack.
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TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Choking pollution and sapping heat will be the major concerns for the world's elite marathon runners at this year's Beijing Olympics.
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The equine influenza outbreak that has brought Australia's racing industry to a standstill is starting to spread, with hundreds of horses now displaying symptoms of the disease.
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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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A mini-platoon of soldiers will be deployed to the Belgian forests to tackle a plague of hairy caterpillars that are causing allergy outbreaks in humans.
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Nature News, JAKARTA - Monster cockroaches and dwarf crabs are among a rich and exotic menagerie of new species discovered by a team of international scientists exploring caves deep inside Indonesiaâs teeming jungles.
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Evolutionary biologists have long theorized that the pace of evolution quickens when a species faces great environmental stress. This idea, of course, is a tough one to âprove,â but we can see examples of it all around us. Just look at the IT security industry, where something akin to drastic environmental change is happening right now: Organized cybercrime groups are punching truck-size holes in enterprise security defenses as regulators, shareholders, and attorneys general are putting pressure on companies to lock down sensitive data. The pressure for change will make this weekâs RSA Security Conference in San Francisco less an industry shindig than a live experiment in evolutionary biology. So walk quietly and keep your field glasses handy to spot some exotic new species in these areas:
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Oaks attacked by wannabe procession moths Caterpillars of the oak procession moth are attempting to gain a foothold in London, the Telegraph reports.â¦
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British agricultural authorities issued  a warning to the public on Tuesday after a bat that eluded the  island nation's strict controls tested positive for a strain  that can infect humans.
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BROKEN HILL, Australia  - Deadly redback spiders  lurking in letterboxes or kangaroos bounding along air strips  are occupational hazards for "flying postman" Dave Funnell on  his 620-mile outback mail run.
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A tiny pest is decimating honeybee colonies across the country, worrying beekeepers and farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate their crops.
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A federal effort to quickly pinpoint and contain outbreaks of disease among livestock is coming under attack.
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State agriculture officials are asking Oregonians to keep an eye out for suspicious insects, after an exotic pest from Asia was spotted in a Portland neighborhood.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...