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.

“It takes time for the parasite to establish itself in a host ... for knowledge gaps and unexplored corners of the enigmatic fungal realm. Their continued ties to the fungal realm and the ...

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.

The parasite basically forms its own nervous system of fungal cells, which allow it to control the ants’ muscles like a puppet. The infected ant is forced to climb the stem of a plant to the ...

Her abdomen swells and she spreads her wings wide, assuming an alluring pose that invites males to become intimately acquainted with the parasitic fungus that killed her. A tiny, glittering tropical ...

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

The 35-year-old law bars adult children and their parents from suing for wrongful death caused by medical malpractice.

Sir David Attenborough thereby coined this disease struck creature as the Gibellula attenboroughii, a disease where the fungus manipulates the spiders' behaviours before killing them, causing the to ...

The four elephants in Romilly Road, Finsbury Park, have become a local tourist attraction in the 13 years since they were ...

In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a ...

The Chase's Darragh Ennis revealed his effective solution for getting rid of unwanted pests and flies from his houseplants ...