Hammerhead flatworms are typically light or honey-colored with one to 4 dorsal stripes, dark collars, and narrow, snake-like ...

Brain worms, like the one Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign said he contracted more than a decade ago, are real — and the infections are more common in certain parts of the world than you might ...

The internet blew up recently on reports that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a worm in his brain. Unfortunately, the medical problem that reportedly plagued RFK Jr., called neurocysticercosis, caused ...

Earthworms could die out if urgent action is not taken, experts have warned. Recent data suggests that the UK's earthworm population has decreased by a third over the past 25 years. This decline ...

UPV/EHU researcher Irantzu Vergara has managed to simultaneously analyze several families of antibiotics in vegetables and earthworms. Sampling carried out in various locations of the Basque ...

And they can thank earthworms from a local bait shop for the idea. No, these little invertebrates didn’t throw on a pair of glasses and bowtie like the character from BookWorm and run the tests ...

The condition might sound terrifying—and, to some observers, darkly hilarious. Literal brain worms! But it does not actually involve any brain-munching, or even your standard-issue worm.

Springs resident Haleta Labuschagne from Haleta’s Earthworms was invited to share her insights on creating the perfect worm farm. According to Labuschagne, earthworms are the unseen heroes of ...

Scientific American spoke with Shafir and White to discuss how parasitic worms may infect the brain, what symptoms they cause and how infections are diagnosed and treated. [An edited transcript of ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in a years-old deposition that doctors told him a parasitic worm had eaten part of his brain before dying in his skull. Kennedy said he had been experiencing ...

Britain’s earthworms are dying. There is an urgent need for new studies to assess the health of the UK’s earthworms, experts have said, pointing to stark data suggesting that their population ...

Once inside your body, pinworms make a home in your colon and rectum. At night, female worms come outside to lay eggs in the skin around your anus. If you scratch the area, the eggs get on your ...