A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

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Scientists report unusually high Chagas disease parasite rates in kissing bugs collected near the U.S.-Mexico border region.

Journalist Daisy Hernández chronicles the history of Chagas disease, also known as kissing bug disease, and how it changed ...

Infected bugs are increasingly making their way from Mexico into Texas. Recent data reveal these insects now carry a deadly parasite at a significantly higher rate than before.

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that transmit Chagas disease in the Borderlands.

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that transmit Chagas disease in the Borderlands. The bugs were collected near ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- UTEP researchers have found unusually high levels in the Borderland of parasitic infection in insects that transmit Chagas disease. Chagas disease is spread by blood-feeding ...

Mites form a “string of pearls” on a spider of the Sparassidae family (photo: Ricardo Bassini-Silva) By André Julião | Agência FAPESP – When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, came across a few-millimeter-long spider wearing something ...

Found in a forest outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the plant steals nutrients from subterranean fungi. By Douglas Main A bizarre plant was discovered near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the periphery of a ...