The Winter Olympics are here. This year’s Games will take place in Milan and Cortina, Italy, highlighting the biggest winter sports and athletes from all across the world. The goal for every athlete ...

Dear Doctors: Any advice on controlling chiggers? When I work in the yard, they eat me alive unless I wear long pants. My wife does not garden and is rarely bitten. My son worked with me last weekend ...

Chiggers (also called harvest mites or red bugs) are tiny red mites that bite. Their bites aren't painful, but they do cause intense itching. Chiggers are members of the arachnid family, which also ...

In his work, the photographer Abelardo Morell captures how flashes of transcendence feel. By Lauren Jackson The year I began my long exit from Mormonism, I went to the Getty. It’s a spaceship of a ...

JOHANNESBURG—What does it look like when a city stops trying? Visit Johannesburg, where instead of providing basic public services, the government just warns residents not to expect them. Signs tell ...

In a first, scientists recorded high-speed footage from dozens of venomous snakes as they went in for the kill. Reading time 3 minutes If you’ve ever been morbidly curious about what it would look ...

Brown recluse spiders are present in Louisiana, and these spiders have necrotic venom and bites sometimes require medical attention. Brown recluses can be characterized by a distinct dark brown, ...

For one thing, speed is of the essence. For one thing, speed is of the essence. Credit...Photo illustration by Heami Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Maggie Lange In 2021, Kira Benson, a ...

You spent some time outside, and then discovered a bug on your leg. What is it? And should you be concerned? It's estimated that more than 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease develop in the United ...

Ticks are awful, but chiggers in many ways are as bad if not worse. You can see ticks, even in the tiny larval phase to which we often refer to as seed ticks. It's easy to hate a malignancy that we ...