Late-night hosts had Robert F. Kennedy's Health and Human Services cuts and controversial remarks on their minds Thursday ...

A new study looking at deadly animal African trypanosomiasis has revealed how the parasite Trypanosoma congolense evades the ...

Cold. It’s happening again. Cold. Cold. It’s time. A lonely brain worm revels at the potential of being lonely no longer — of finally escaping. Mysteriously, Danforth has brought back their maraschino ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

Cerebral malaria is caused by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito carrying P. falciparum. Once in the bloodstream, the ...

Curiously, this lack of good judgment seems to settle down once they've had sex, suggesting an urge to reproduce dominates the male worm's brain over risk of harm. The researchers link this phenomenon ...

Marcus the Worm is a character from VRChat, the popular online virtual reality platform. He is a bizarre worm-like creature with stick-thin arms and legs whose way of speaking is confusing. Many on ...

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and ...

Scientists are on the verge of achieving what's eluded them for 25 years: creating a working computer simulation of the simplest brain we know - that of a tiny worm with just 300 neurons.