I remember the day I got obsessed with a tiny, see-through worm. I was in a classroom at Northeastern University, where I worked at the time, giving a science-communication workshop to a group of ...

Slime time: A velvet worm producing slime. (Courtesy: Poulhazan A et al. 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c06798 The ...

They will develop swollen lymph glands and aching muscles for a month or more. A parasitic worm called the Onchocerca volvulus causes onchocerciasis. A person can contract the parasite due to ...