The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

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

Parasites are organisms that feed off their hosts for survival. Such parasitic creatures can cause mild to serious symptoms ...

But new research shows there’s another force working to their advantage: static electricity. At human scale, static electricity is little more than a curiosity. You walk across the carpet, friction ...

"The wasp lays its eggs inside the pest, and the developing larvae consume it from within." Experts stunned after parasitic ...

By studying how worms use electric charge to jump onto flies, scientists are showing even physical strategies are embedded in ...

To reproduce, these minuscule creatures—roughly the size of a pinpoint—must leap 25 times their body length and land on a flying insect as it zooms overhead. Given that wind, gravity and air ...

Detailed in a study published on October 16 in the journal Science, biologists collaborating across multiple universities in ...

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

A teenage boy had a giant growth removed from his brain after being infected with a parasitic tapeworm. The previously healthy 14-year-old from a farm in India sought medical attention after ...

Tennessee prohibits catching fish with a lasso and hunting wild animals while riding in motor vehicles. But eating roadkill ...