SCN costs soybean farmers more than $1 billion annually. Crop rotation and resistant-variety selection can help manage SCN.

A microscopic parasite that quietly settles into the brain of humans and animals is not nearly as quiet as scientists once ...

A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to ...

A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma ...

Some people call it a crazy worm. Some call it an Alabama jumper, although it’s not contained to that state. It’s Amynthas agrestis, one of three main species of earthworm native to southeast Asia ...

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a sweeping motion to clean their own environment. Physicists at the University of ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A 41-year-old nurse from Bakersfield was preparing to have a 22-pound ovarian cyst removed when she found out she ...

Klum dishes to PEOPLE about the cleanse that got everyone talking Hedy Phillips is the Senior Style News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared ...

In the animal phylum Nematomorpha (“thread-shaped” in Greek), horsehair worms are long, slender aquatic worms (also called wire worms). Unlike earthworms, horsehair worms’ smooth bodies are not ...

EAST LANSING, MI – Dozens of reports of invasive jumping worms across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula – and a few in the Upper – are raising concerns about damages to the state’s natural ecosystems.

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...