Carolyn Hax is away. In her absence, we are offering columns from her archive. DEAR CAROLYN: My boyfriend is quite a flirt and an all-around fun guy. When I feel good and comfortable in the company we ...

Spending time in close contact with others means risking catching germs and getting sick. But being sociable may also help transmit 'good' microbes, finds a new study. Researchers monitored changes in ...

Locusts are usually harmless loners. But together, they become plagues. When conditions are right, solitary locusts begin congregating and transmogrifying into their “gregarious” form, becoming a ...

The Team Fortress 2 economy has been sent into a tailspin after a sudden, unexplained action taken by a player who once owned one of the game's rarest items. Screenshots floating around various social ...

Researchers wielding artists’ paintbrushes have tickled some insects and come up with a new insight into how a plague of locusts gets started. Left to itself, the desert locust of biblical fame stays ...

Desert locusts alternate between solitary and gregarious lifestyles. In the solitary phase, locusts avoid conspecifics, have cryptic appearance and behavior, move slowly and eat restricted diets. In ...

A strange thing happens when desert locusts get crowded together. They undergo a Jekyll and Hyde transformation. In their solitary phase, locusts are unassuming insects. Their brown-green bodies are ...

Gregarious Narain is co-founder and CTO of Chute, which enables users to discover, organize, obtain consent, and publish fan photos and videos as a mobile app, photo gallery, banner ad, or even a ...