In tropical forests around the world, a group of parasitic fungi has evolved one of nature’s most unsettling survival strategies: it infects an insect, seizes control of its behavior, and turns the ...

Scientists have revealed a parasite's role in boosting male insect appeal by modulating host processes to facilitate female attraction, thereby enhancing the parasite's own transmission and survival.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A tree-deforming insect infestation is spreading throughout Utah, and ...

It's one of the leading causes of heart disease in Latin America, and it's caused by a parasite that gets inside of you from a bug bite. Now the CDC wants people in Louisiana and other southern states ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malaysian scientists have discovered a new species of parasitic fungus in Borneo's jungles that preys on Malaysian scientists have ...

A large-scale reanalysis of 86 RNA-seq libraries shows that the developmental gene expression programs of Trypanosoma cruzi ...

Scientists may have discovered a way to lessen risk of cancer in stem cells… using a parasitic piece of DNA from insects known as “piggyBac” that’ll cut and paste itself overwriting the disease.

While rain followed by sunshine produces the eye-catching sight of a rainbow, it can also mark the need for livestock owners to confront the insects and parasites that thrive in the summer season. To ...

A microscopic parasitic worm living in the soil has figured out how to weaponize static electricity against its insect prey. The worm, Steinernema carpocapsae, lives in a world too small for sight, ...