A newly published study co-authored by University of South Florida alum Louis Coticchio and USF integrative biologist Deby Cassill challenges long-standing assumptions about the brown recluse spider, ...

Technically, all spiders are at least slightly venomous. However, the vast majority of species in the United States are not considered medically significant. Most cases of spider bites that require ...

“This research shows that brown recluse spiders aren’t the boogeyman that everyone makes them out to be,” Coticchio said.

A spider bite can look minor, then shift quickly. Fast care, follow-up, and calm decisions protect recovery when symptoms ...

Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown, whose work led to the arrests of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, unexpectedly found her name among flight records obtained by the Justice Department in ...

Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and one-time Brown physics student, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said. Brown research associate Ulbiya ...

An autopsy determined that the man suspected in last weekend’s attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.G. Loureiro were classmates with bright futures. Both excelled in physics and made their way from their home country of ...

Law enforcement officials say the same gunman who opened fire at Brown University also shot and killed an MIT professor two days later. The suspect in both shootings has been identified as Claudio ...

The man believed to be responsible for the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor in Brookline days later died on Tuesday, two days before he was found in a Salem, New ...

Police have identified former Brown University student Claudio Neves Valente as the gunman in both the fatal shooting at the Ivy League school in Rhode Island and the murder of an MIT professor in ...

Providence can “breathe a little easier” this morning, as the shooter who killed two students and injured nine at Brown University on Dec. 13 was found at a New Hampshire storage facility Thursday, ...