Parasitic weeds extract water and nutrients from their host plants. But what makes these parasites so successful? A study led ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most ...

Trypanosomes are parasites that cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and various animal diseases. Diagnosis and treatment remain complex and no effective vaccine has been developed. A better ...

Dear Science Mine: What is the difference between a virus and a bacterium? Both can infect us, they both make us sick, but bacteria respond to antibiotics and viruses don't. How come? Answer: Bacteria ...

Discover how malaria parasites navigate through skin using helical motion to efficiently overcome environmental noise and ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes, but our bodies also need cholesterol to survive. Now, scientists say its ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect Periwinkle snails on the ...

The island fox (Urocyon littoralis) is a small fox species that is endemic to six of the eight Channel Islands of California. Image by Pacific Southwest Region USFWS from Sacramento, US - Island fox, ...

A 2016 editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented the existence of “research parasites,” those who pick over the data of others rather than generating new data themselves. The ...