A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois and partner institutions created the first soybean cyst nematode pangenome. The post Scientists map soybean cyst nematode pangenome to fight $1.5B pest ...

Few pests eat away at farm profitability as much as soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Causing at least $1.5 billion in yield losses annually, it's soybean's single biggest threat. Unfortunately, soybean's ...

Few pests eat away at farm profitability as much as soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Causing at least $1.5 billion in yield losses ...

We’ve got all the non-fiction food groups covered in this World Book Day 2026 edition of our book round-ups.

A neurological disease spread by rats and other animals may have become established in San Diego County.

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

Sanitation testing finds concentrations of the virus in Sacramento and Davis, along with Bay Area communities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported a startling medical case involving a worm parasite discovered inside a woman’s brain. The finding shocked researchers because it ...

When a coastal carpet python was brought into a wildlife hospital in South East Queensland in August 2024, vets were confronted with something they didn't recognize. The python had damaged scales, ...

More than 50,000 years ago, life was not going well for the Neanderthal who later became known in the scientific community as "Chagyrskaya D." He was living with relatives, including his adolescent ...

Planting seeds sounds straightforward and, frankly, it should be: Buy a seed, plant it, add water and watch it grow. But one ...