Mind control isn’t fiction — it’s biology. This video explores parasites that hijack behavior, rewrite instincts, and turn ...

On a fall night, under an outdoor light, a bee stumbles in circles, far from its hive. It cannot fly. Soon, its tormentor reveals itself: a writhing maggot breaks through its neck—killing the bee.

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With its 2001 release, Microsoft’s runaway hit Halo: Combat Evolved disrupted the gaming industry. Now, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to be using Halo to disrupt the lives of ...

What happens when life turns against itself? These zombie parasites infect, manipulate, and destroy from the inside out. Their victims walk, move, and act but are no longer in control. This ...

A sneaky, stealthy parasite queen can turn an ant colony against itself. Newly-mated queens of two parasitic ant species have been found to sneak into an ant colony, creep towards the resident ant ...

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak previously reported on ...

Every cell of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the organism that causes malaria, contains a tiny compartment full of microscopic iron crystals. As long as the parasite is alive, the crystals ...