Centuries before the now-banned red dye No. 3 was synthesized in a lab, humans turned to insects to bring a little scarlet, vermillion or burgundy into their foods, fabrics and ...

Wilmington, Delaware, Transparency Market Research Inc., Jan. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shellac powder, a resin obtained from the secretions of the lac insect, is known for its versatility and ...

“Crimson lake, also called carmine lake, is a red pigment derived from carminic acid, which is produced from the cochineal bug, Dactylopius coccus,” said Jon Zawislak, assistant professor of ...

Shellac is a natural biopolymer derived from the secretions of lac insects, which feed on the sap of specific trees. This versatile material has been used for centuries in various industries due ...

Archaeologists excavating near the Colosseum found a rare chunk of Egyptian blue pigment dating back about 2,000 years. Photo from Simona Murrone and the Colosseum Archaeological Park Across the ...

Microsoft has fixed a bug that was causing some Windows Server 2022 systems with two or more NUMA nodes to fail to start up. NUMA (short for non-uniform memory access) is a computer memory ...

Researchers studying crustaceans in Vietnam have identified a new "supergiant" sea bug species that bears a surprising resemblance to a classic movie villain. Deep-sea sea bugs, or the Bathynomus ...

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A high-severity vulnerability in the 7-Zip file archiver allows attackers to bypass the Mark of the Web (MotW) Windows security feature and execute code on users' computers when extracting ...

A notoriously contagious stomach bug’s spread through Arlington has public health experts urging extra precautions. An alert about a wave of suspected norovirus cases went out to Arlington ...