A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and ...

Scientists have known for decades that many animals use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation. It's less clear how they do it. A new study suggests earthworms may be a good way to figure it out.

Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air—up to 25 times its body length—to attach to flying insects uses static electricity ...

If giant rats weren’t enough, something else is looking to hibernate in your home: cluster flies. You might ask: what’s so ...

Beech Leaf Disease, which cuts off photosynthesis and eventually causes trees to die, is rapidly spreading around the ...

The official first day of fall has officially come and gone, haunted houses are opening up around the Valley, people are planning their trips to the pumpkin patches and corn mazes. Meanwhile, for some ...

Russia is torturing Ukrainian prisoners with electric shocks to their genitals from a Soviet-era telephone in a cruel method known as making a “call to Putin,” according to a shocking United Nations ...

“Predators,” the new documentary about the TV news program “To Catch a Predator,” comes across as painfully, almost uncomfortably conflicted in the view of its subject. Yet those NBC specials that ...

Rapidly rising electricity costs have been in the news consistently lately, and Inside Climate News recently examined increases in rates by state. By July, electricity costs had increased by nearly 10 ...

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...

Mazda calls the EZ-60 a “dream car.” The electric SUV is now available in China with prices starting under $17,000. Starting next year, Mazda will launch the new electric SUV in other global markets, ...