New research reveals how the simple nervous system of C. elegans worms can dramatically reconfigure itself to survive infection.

Spring has sprung in Ontario, and with temperatures soaring into the high teens this week, there are some warm-weather creepy ...

Lauded for its body and mind benefits, it is one of the most consumed fish in the world, but a new health study questions its ...

Velvet worms are sensitive to air currents ... they rear up and brandish two appendages like a cowboy in a Western, firing reels of deadly silly string - a kind of slime that has fascinated ...

The wandering broadhead planarian (Bipalium adventitium), or hammerhead worm, was first sighted in Ontario in 2017.

Upon infection, the C. elegans worm reshuffles the roles of brain cells and flips the functions of some of the chemicals it ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists at James Cook University in Cairns have discovered how toxins from stonefish could be ...

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ages -- including the older ones that are most likely to transmit malaria ...

Then the deaths start. The meteor brought something with it, and soon the ground under them is brimming with deadly worms, and the earth grows so soft that they can topple healthy trees with a ...