Squeezed from the skin of a stonefish, a recently discovered toxin shows enormous promise, according to researchers in Far ...

New research suggests that an “often-overlooked” parasitic infection, already linked to bladder cancer, may also raise the risk of cervical cancer.

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and ...

Looking at Kyla Fuller today it is almost impossible to imagine that she spent more than a decade desperately ill.

A new phylum of microbes has been discovered thriving in one of the least explored parts of Earth—the deep Critical Zone, a ...

After two long years, the highly anticipated second season of HBO’s The Last of Us is almost here. In the new season, five ...

Two more kinds of ticks can cause red meat allergies than previously thought. See the new species, learn where all 3 live, ...

From poisons to purposefully contracting life-threatening illnesses, women have gone to wild lengths to look ‘beautiful’.

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

Findings from a new study could help doctors select more effective treatments earlier for patients suffering from leishmaniasis, a disfiguring skin infection.

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

Siku, a polar bear at Lincoln Park Zoo, developed allergies to various substances including human hair dander (Credit: ...