by Susan Keown | May 6, 2023 | ScienceWire
For the New York Times, new member Rebecca Dzombak (@bdzombak) writes about “imposter queens,” mysterious parasitic ants that mooch off their colony’s food and produce only parasitic progeny. A new study explains their likely origin for the first time, and Dzombak...
by Susan Keown | May 2, 2022 | ScienceWire
For High Country News, Carly Cassella (@carlycassella) introduces us to an ongoing research project aiming to solve the mystery of an unknown species of oyster-parasitizing mud worm that is showing up in Northwest oyster beds. Where did these worms come from, and what...
by Chris Tachibana | Sep 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
No, don’t try it, writes Christie Wilcox for Discover. When two people did, they ended up in the hospital with angiostrongyliasis. Read Christie’s piece to find out exactly what that is, how doctors got rid of it, and why, if you’ve sampled a raw snail, prawn, or...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Roberta Kwok (@robertakwok) covers the latest science stories for Conservation This Week, including news from PNAS about disease-fighting West African prawns. A schistosomiasis outbreak after a dam was erected on the Senegal River led to experiments that discovered...
