Scientists studying aging found that sensory inputs like touch and smell can cancel out the lifespan-boosting effects of ...

Today we have modern antiparasitic drugs. But 130 years ago, our forebears had nothing but quack cures and prayers to drive out tapeworms.

It is generally held that worm infestations are the most commonly encountered infections in man, with millions of people infected globally. When an individual is infected, the person excretes faeces ...

Jiang mentioned that fish don't have taste buds like humans. They mostly judge food by smell, so the pungency of chillies ...

Sharing meals with our pets is considered instinctive, but not all human food ends up in their bowls. Some are toxic or...

Lottie Stoddart takes the “paper-box stage” as her structural prototype, incorporating body, myth and everyday objects into a ...

The worms can jump as much as a foot off the ground. They also can make the soil inhospitable for native plants and insects.

A long-term deep-sea experiment revealed that a crucial species failed to appear where it should have thrived. In many horror films, the most unsettling moments come from creatures that can't always ...

Many insects do produce antimicrobial or anti-inflammatory substances, so there is possibility they are medicinal.

A probe has been launched after a puppy bought online in Doncaster died from parvovirus, just hours after being bought.