For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

By studying how worms use electric charge to jump onto flies, scientists are showing even physical strategies are embedded in ...

Parasites are organisms that feed off their hosts for survival. Such parasitic creatures can cause mild to serious symptoms ...

Parasites, ranging from tapeworms to microscopic protozoa like Giardia, pose significant health threats by infesting humans ...

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

But new research shows there’s another force working to their advantage: static electricity. At human scale, static electricity is little more than a curiosity. You walk across the carpet, friction ...

Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 ...

Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...

In March 2025, ARUP expanded its AI screening algorithm, becoming the first laboratory in the world to apply AI to the entire ...