We’re talking about lice; winter offers these little monsters a few special ways to spread. Head lice are one of the great ...

While lice have been around since time immemorial, these pesky insects mostly spread through physical contact. Children are ...

Head lice can be a wintertime headache for families and schools, but simple precautions can stop the spread of these ...

Armed with the ability to accept all cells as its own, comb jellies can merge with others to survive. Here’s how it works.

Those people are reputedly called 'gate lice' and American Airlines has worked out a way to deal with them. This new technology will alert American Airlines staff at the gate when someone tries to ...

Any parent who has a child at school will know (or will soon know!) the sheer frustration that can come with treating a head ...

“The bees recycle the comb materials and use a spiral construction to efficiently build and maintain temperature stability in the comb. We can learn so much from their intelligent and multifunctional ...

Black people are less likely than others to get head lice but definitely aren’t immune. Clearing up the myth is the first ...

Lice live their entire lives with a set of genes that in humans would indicate a late-stage degenerative disorder such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. How do lice tolerate this genome structure ...