Parasite is the kind of film that rewards rewatching. Bong Joon-ho’s attention to detail is second to none, and each clever touch reveals something deeper about society, class, and human nature. If ...

Pigs have long been known, sometimes celebrated, as among the most intelligent of farm animals. Now, a new Dartmouth-led ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver ... amount of plastic in the organs, meaning the body does clear the plastic in some way—if not ...

Scientists have issued an urgent warning over parasite-riddled fish eaten by millions of Americans in several US states.

In exchange for these mites emptying out gunk, the human body offers our melatonin, a hormone produced in the skin that helps ...

In a 2014 Nature paper, Ralston described this awkward process — trogocytosis, or “cell nibbling.” It was a revelation at the ...

Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century. An analysis from 1992 noted a steady decrease in sperm ...

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them ...