Children have returned to school and are bringing home stories about the things they learned and the friends they made. But some parents are concerned they also could be bringing home a tiny nuisance: ...

Sharing isn't always caring. Doctors reveal the personal care items that can harbor disease-causing germs and why you should ...

Head lice are parasitic insects that feed on human blood, but they are difficult to find because they are very small, move quickly and avoid light. The hallmark symptom that indicates there might be ...

Becky Boudreau, a head lice technician in New Hampshire, says because lice are most active at night, parents may notice their children scratching more then or not sleeping well. She said it may take ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

In a new study from Flinders University, researchers used Caenorhabditis elegans (a microscopic roundworm with just 300 ...

Schmidtea mediterranea, a freshwater flatworm (or planarian), has adult pluripotent stem cells spread all throughout its ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity ...

Stem cells in most organisms typically take cues from adjacent cells. But new research from the Stowers Institute for Medical ...

Scientists thawed ancient soil in the lab and tiny nematodes, Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, “woke up” after being frozen for ...