A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

She’s read up on the fungi that take over flies’ bodies, partially digesting them from the inside out before forcing them to ...

Tracking pathogens in wastewater samples provides early warnings for disease outbreaks, aiding public health planning and ...

Egg-eating worms living on Chesapeake Bay blue crabs may hold the key to smarter fishery management. Once thought to be a threat, these parasites actually serve as natural biomarkers that reveal when ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is free and clear of brain-eating worms, according to his wife. During a Tuesday, Oct. 14 visit to The ...

The first time I was bitten by a leech, I was swimming in a West Virginia river. I remember the scene perfectly: I crawled ...

Foreword -- Phyla -- Key to the phyla of animals found in the North Central States -- Free living protozoa -- Porifera -- sponges -- Fresh-water coelenterates ...

A Florida Republican has filed a bill to make the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin available over-the-counter for human use. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ivermectin was controversially touted as a cure ...

In a discovery that could reshape how we think about memory, researchers at Flinders University have found that forgetting is not just a glitch in the brain but is actually a finely-tuned process, and ...

OpenAI released a new benchmark on Thursday that tests how its AI models perform compared to human professionals across a wide range of industries and jobs. The test, GDPval, is an early attempt at ...