Before capes and computer graphics ruled the box office, action heroes were flesh and bone; men and women who bled, sweated, ...

At a remote field station in Louisiana, scientists study the insects that arrive within minutes of death. Each maggot and ...

Thousands of Bay Area techies make the trek to Cupertino every day to work at Apple’s headquarters, and come 2026, thousands ...

A Waitrose volunteer who had autism lost his job after his mother asked if he could be paid. Tom Boyd, 27, stacked shelves and emptied stock cages at a branch of the supermarket chain in Cheadle Hulme ...

It's been nearly a month since a new case of Vibrio vulnificus, also called "flesh-eating" bacteria, was reported in Florida, but the latest data from the state Health Department shows the number has ...

Nearly a decade after her death—and only three years after the publication of her posthumous novel Toad—Katherine Dunn’s short story collection Near Flesh (Macmillan, 272 pages, $28) brings her ...

Spanish Fort, Ala. — After boating with her friends on Labor Day along Alabama's Gulf coast, Summerlin Skipworth's life changed dramatically. The 30-year-old single mom slipped and cut her feet near a ...

The New World screwworm is a flesh-eating parasite that lays eggs in open wounds. It can be devastating to livestock and, in rare cases, humans. (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/TNS) ...

Texas officials are telling residents to check their pets and livestock, and insisting on immediate use of pesticide bait after officials in Mexico confirmed an infection with the flesh-eating New ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The New World screwworm (NWS) — a maggot which feeds off living flesh — is on Texas’s doorstep. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the pest was spotted by ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville man who has been battling with a flesh-eating bacteria for weeks said he believes he was discharged from the hospital early because he does not have insurance. Nate ...