While mayflies, caddisflies and stoneflies get lots of respect and even reverence from sportsmen, the house fly is the annoying object of everyone’s reflexive wrath. In the heat of summer, they’re ...

Richard Pollack told this story live before an audience at the Oberon in Harvard Square on August 27, as part of a Story Collider event sponsored by WBUR. The Story Collider features true, personal ...

Small birds like swifts and swallows that migrate long distances have been predicted to travel up to 500 kilometres per day, but new evidence shows that one species of swift can cover far more ground ...

Although a nuisance in every home, fruit flies have made surprising contributions to medical science. Now a researcher says that they may also hold the key to the cause of Alzheimer's disease.