The U.S. Army’s latest laser weapon is no longer a bulky science project strapped to a shipping pallet. It has been squeezed ...

The US Army is now mounting defense contractor AeroVironment's second-generation Locust Laser Weapon System on some of its ...

In 1937, aboard slowly-moving trains, the Army National Guard used flamethrowers in an attempt to quell a relentless plague of locusts crossing through Colorado. But the flamethrowers failed. And so ...

It’s been a tough year around the world. When it seemed like things couldn’t get any worse, locust swarms started making headlines for wreaking havoc in East Africa, the Middle East and India. For ...

Locusts have been agricultural pests for almost as long as humans have grown plants for food. They cause millions of dollars in crop damage every year. They can even create food shortages and destroy ...

East Africa is seeing its worst swarms of locusts in many decades. How can these ravenous pests be stopped? Drawn to an emaciated avocado drooping from a drying mother tree, Esther Ndavu wonders aloud ...