Bed bugs, a blood-sucking insect, tend to hide themselves in beds in homes or hotels. Here's how to avoid infestations.

Tenzing, a 12-year-old male red panda known for his playful charm and viral antics, has died at the San Francisco Zoo and Gardens after a rapid decline in ...

Summary: New research highlights how parasitic infections can alter brain chemistry and behavior in humans. Toxoplasma gondii, among others, appears to manipulate dopamine and immune responses, ...

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Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

Ancient DNA from prehistoric bones reveals a 37,000-year timeline of human infections, tracing our long struggle with disease.

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Known to science as Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly can be found across Central and South America. A reasonably common ...

In a new study published and featured in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, researchers have discovered that ...

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

Ticks and the diseases they carry are only becoming more common. But new treatments and vaccines might not be too far off.

Experiments in mice show that some gut bacteria can absorb toxic PFAS chemicals, allowing animals to expel them through feces.