A few months after Jason Newsted joined Metallica, a friend of mine met him through author Steffan Chirazi, who is close with the band. She was thrilled, as becoming Mrs. Newsted was one of her life ...

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The worms and microbes are part of a "vermifiltration" system that cleans manure wastewater. The approach may dramatically ...

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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 ...

A 60-year-old man in Spain went to the doctor complaining of a headache that he couldn’t shake. It had started two weeks prior and was only getting worse. He also said he had noticed subtle changes in ...

From mosquitoes to bed bugs, parasites have always stuck close to humanity, and they continue to shape our lives to this day, entomologist Dino Martins writes in his new book. Reading time 8 minutes ...

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Researchers discovered fossil evidence showing that spionid worms, parasites of modern oysters, were already infecting bivalves 480 million years ago. High-resolution scans revealed their distinctive ...

Lowri says she is happy to be alive and healthy after her ordeal The first time Lowri Denman knew something was wrong was when she made the horrifying discovery of a metre-long tapeworm after going to ...

The first time Lowri Denman knew something was wrong was when she made the horrifying discovery of a metre-long tapeworm after going to the toilet. "It looked absolutely disgusting, like Sellotape ...

It takes just minutes for the earth to swallow me whole as I abseil into the cave’s mouth. My feet bounce off rock until suddenly the wall slopes away into a yawning cavern and I’m kicking out at open ...