Researchers show that pill bugs and chitons — small creatures with exoskeletons and reflexive movements — have behaviors making them useful as grippers, with no harm done to the creatures in ...

Harmless pill bugs can be a nuisance in your home. Here are DIY and professional approaches to get rid of them. Pill bugs (Armadillidium vulgare), also known as woodlice or roly-polies ...

While commonly spotted in harmlessly dwelling in damp dirt or under logs in your yard, pill bugs are an unwelcome visitor inside your home. As they're primarily attracted to moisture, you might ...

Hungry pill bugs were placed in a petri dish containing liverworts with no or over-generated oil bodies, and compared their herbivory. The liverworts without the oil body were eaten by pill bugs ...

Miranda Lowe, Principal Curator of Crustacea, explains some of what we know so far about these giant waterborne relatives of the pill bug. There are a lot of animals living on the seabed that seem ...

the dreaded “winter vomiting bug”, could be closer than you think: early clinical trials have returned positive results for a vaccine candidate that is taken orally as a pill. The trial ...

WHILE norovirus still circulates at high levels, a new pill designed to protect against the winter vomiting bug has been undergoing trials. Just two weeks ago there was a record number of patients ...

an experimental norovirus vaccine given as a pill produced defensive responses exactly where it counts—in the saliva of older people most vulnerable to the explosive stomach bug. For most ...