Stuart MacGill has dismissed any notion that Shane Warne hindered his Test career, asserting that Warne's success actually ...

Stuart MacGill has debunked the theory Shane Warne blocked him from having a full Test career. In a tell-all interview on the Howie Games podcast, MacGill has broken his silence after his life fell ...

It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ochracea ( O. ochracea ). A new study published this week in the Annals of ...

A study published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, offers the most detailed view to date of how this ...

The study describes how the embryos grow substantially in utero, likely receiving maternal nourishment during development, a ...

Transmission of diseases to triggering allergies and carrying parasites, here's why asking kabutars or pigeons to 'ja ja' is ...

The popular co-op climbing game, PEAK, introduces a challenging element: poison. Players face threats from ticks, causing ...

Chagas disease is often called a silent killer because many people don't realize they have it until complications from the infection kill them.

The greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal.

What, exactly, is a parasite? Evolutionary biologists define a parasite as a species that benefits from a close relationship with another species – its host – while the host bears a cost.

Accumulating evidence suggests that a common single-celled parasite called Toxoplasma gondii may also be a contributor: An April 2025 study showed for the first time that “human sperm lose their ...

Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it ...