Learn how some fungi turn insects into zombies, others infect humans, and how they can’t be killed with drugs.

Rise of the Zombie Bugs” explores how parasites create real-life zombies in the insect and invertebrate world.

Here's why there are such a wide variety of symptoms associated with meningitis and why not every form of meningitis is ...

A killer fungus The fungus Entomophaga maimaiga is from Japan, and it’s unclear how it arrived in the spongy moth’s range in North America. Anecdotally, Ridge says it’s possible a ...

These eerie, white-foamed spiders are infected by a parasitic, entomopathogenic fungus that takes control of their brains and bodies, putting them into a zombie-like state. Slowly but surely ...

Donald Trump on Thursday (Apr 18) had to be rescued by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as a journalist grilled the US President on him allegedly calling European "parasites". During a joint ...

Nail fungus is a common concern that affects a significant portion of the population, often leading to unsightly, discolored, and brittle nails. Many traditional treatments for fungal infections ...

Abstract: This work investigates the effectiveness of various state-of-the-art techniques for determining the parasitic inductance of surge protective devices across a wide frequency range. This is ...

Each type of meningitis has a slightly different cause, but each ultimately acts in the same way: A bacterium, fungus, virus, or parasite spreads through the body (via the bloodstream, nerve ...

Unsuspecting ants go about their normal routines until they encounter microscopic spores of a parasitic fungus from The Fungus That Can Turn Ants into Zombies - Animals Around The Globe Animals Around ...

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or caterpillar — into zombie-like puppets that act against their own interests.