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

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity ...

The parasitic roundworm Steinernema carpocapsae, which live in soil, are already known to leap some 25 times their body ...

I received the following email from Doug Brooks, who gardens in Claremont. “For years, I have used some type of yearly insect control product to help protect my fruit trees. The last few years I have ...