Life
Plight of the Living Dead review – The making of real zombies
From cockroaches to humans, few creatures are immune from the complex strategies of the mind-stealing parasites at the centre of a gripping Christmas tale
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Crickets rapidly evolve new mating call to evade their parasites
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Business students more likely to have a brain parasite spread by cats
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Earth
Lizards keep evolving toxic green blood and we don’t know why
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Environment
Mistletoe’s cells are broken at a fundamental level
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Catching malaria makes you smell more attractive to mosquitoes
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Earth
A weird underground plant has been rediscovered after 151 years
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Earth
Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies
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Why a nasty surprise lurks 100 years on from the lethal 1918 flu
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Your body fat may be protecting you against infections
Fat isn’t all bad – it stores powerful immune cells, and seems to boost their ability to defend the body from dangerous infections
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Earth
Genital parasite crabs are struggling to find sex partners
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Mummy autopsy reveals earliest known case of liver parasite
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I tried ingesting rat tapeworm parasites and my poo turned green
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Parasitic worm eggs may soon be legally sold as food in Germany
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