After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

What’s the best thing to do with food waste? Feed the worms. That’s precisely what Michael Sessler’s science students at Stanley Switlik Elementary School have been doing — and the […] ...

Horsehair worms can grow up to a foot long and manipulate host insects — and sometimes show up in toilets — but are harmless ...

They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...

Close-up of a female stolon–one of the independent reproductive units–from the worm Ramisyllis kingghidorahi. It has already ...

Scientists have uncovered the genetic underpinnings of one of the ocean's most bizarre animals: a branching marine worm named ...

New Zealand faces a hidden health threat. It is Toxoplasma gondii. Cats carry this parasite. It can cause blindness. Nearly ...

E. histolytica kills up to 100,000 people a year, but researchers now have a genetic battle plan to strike back ...

The United States Department of Agriculture is suspending imports of cattle, horse and bison at the U.S. - Mexico border in ...

or eye problems. In a brain, the L3 larvae would normally develop into young adults, but human brains are dead ends for the worms, which eventually die there without fully maturing. Some of the ...

In the bustling city of Beijing, China, a 41-year-old woman would leave her home shared with her pet cat and head to work in an office. But in the summer of 2022, her day was interrupted by the ...