Make no mistake, zombies are very real. Sure, zombies of the human variety aren’t going to wander down your street, The Walking Dead-style, any time soon, but zombies of a different sort are scuttling ...

It's Halloween, so prepare to be terrified. And no, this column has nothing to do with Open Enrollment Season. Instead, it relates to the emerald cockroach wasp, a wisp of an insect that you may have ...

The jewel wasp uses one of the most extreme parasitic strategies found in nature. After manipulating a cockroach’s behavior, ...

A cockroach has been filmed karate kicking a parasitic wasp to save itself from becoming a zombie. Ken Catania, a biologist at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, was studying the interactions between ...

It’s like a horror movie come to life. In a new study, biologists say there’s a certain type of wasp, called the emerald jewel wasp, that has a peculiar way of making sure its young have a head start ...

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A rare wasp that uses its venom to control the mental activity of a cockroach — sending the bug into a zombie-like state — might hold the key to understanding what happens in the brains of people with ...