Connecting to the Mind Flayer's hive mind allowed Henry Creel to become the version of Vecna that audiences see in Stranger ...

Parasites don’t just steal nutrients — many actively take control of their hosts’ behavior. From fungi that force insects to climb before killing them, to wasps that reprogram immune systems, nature ...

A secret Central Intelligence Agency mind control program. National Security Agency spy operations aimed at Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali. A federal manual for political assassinations. It's ...

A parasite can exist inside the human body without becoming a manifest symptom is several months. Although people commonly believe parasitic infections occur only because of poor hygiene, doctors ...

H. salminicola, a parasite live without oxygen inside salmon. (Image: Stephen Douglas Atkinson) Researchers have discovered a parasite, Henneguya salminicola, living without oxygen inside salmon ...

In Stranger Things, there are many references to things from other fictional worlds, specifically the land of Dungeons & Dragons. But, when the series began to expand the backstory of Eleven (aka Jane ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, numerous men followed sex workers into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood. Instead of the cramped, charmless ...

Cattle producers are rethinking traditional parasite control methods, shifting toward more strategic treatments to prevent drug resistance, Kansas State University beef cattle experts say. “In the ...

The first human case in the U.S. of a flesh-eating parasite was reported in Maryland.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said a case of the flesh-eating New World screwworm parasite has ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Is Klum onto something? Should we all be doing an ...

The natural world is always fascinating, with millions of unique species for us to explore and research. But now and again, nature presents us with something so strange that it is, frankly, bizarre.