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Certain parasitic worms survive by taking control of snail behavior. Instead of hiding, infected snails are driven into exposed areas where predators can easily find them. The worms manipulate ...

If you're visiting a sandy beach you may like to reflect on something that might be going on below your feet. Lurking behind ...

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By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

Every year, there’s a new lineup of such curious clinical conditions. There are always some unfortunate souls to mark medical ...

The Everglades is the largest stretch of undeveloped land in the easter U.S., and the area is literally crawling with beasts of all sorts, sizes ...

Q: Every winter, I end up losing some of my indoor plants. They will look fine all summer, but once winter comes, they ...

TEL AVIV—Israel’s military said it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza City on Saturday, the most senior military leader of the group to be killed in the enclave since a fragile cease-fire took ...

Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” stars Uma Thurman as an assassin left for dead on her wedding day who seeks revenge against her would-be murderers, a motley gang that includes her mentor-lover Bill ...

Shop owners say the thieves who took 990 pounds of snails must have been escargot cognoscenti. By Ephrat Livni It was not quite the Louvre heist, but for a village in northeastern France, the recent ...

KHAN YOUNIS/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Nov 29 (Reuters) - An Israeli attack killed two children in Gaza on Saturday, medics and relatives said, in violence that has persisted ...