Tiny worms use static electricity to launch and stick to flying insects - scientists reveal how the trick works.

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

Taking flight: a parasitic roundworm prepares to jump on its host (courtesy: Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez) Researchers in the US ...

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

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

The world’s fastest ant can run at almost a metre per second, covering more than 100 times its own body length in that time. The Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) has one of the most extreme ...

Scientists have recorded the speed of the world’s fastest ant, which lives in the Sahara and is able to travel 108 times its own body length per second. Harald Wolf, a professor at the University of ...