When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

Figure 2: Response of Trichogramma brassicae parasitic wasps to signals of its host, the large cabbage-white butterfly Pieris brassicae. In further two-choice bioassays, we investigated whether wasps ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, came across a ...

A parasitic infection can cause various symptoms, depending on the organism. These can include flu-like or gastrointestinal symptoms, among others. Treatment may include medications. Parasites are ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

The black parasitic ant tricks the workers into attacking their amber queen. Current Biology / Takasuka et al. Ants are no strangers to violence. Sometimes, an outsider queen will attack a colony’s ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...