Plight of the Living Dead review – The making of real zombies
18 December 2018
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
29 October 2018
In Hawaii, parasitic flies target singing crickets, forcing them to rapidly evolve to escape detection. Now some males have developed a special, seductive purr
Mistletoe's cells are broken at a fundamental level
3 May 2018
All complex organisms rely on tiny nodules called mitochondria to supply their cells with energy – but mistletoe’s mitochondria don’t work and yet it survives
A weird underground plant has been rediscovered after 151 years
2 March 2018
A species of subterranean plant was only seen once, in 1866, and was assumed to be extinct – until researchers stumbled across living specimens in Borneo
Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies
26 February 2018
Fifteen more species of “zombie ant fungus” have been discovered, and they all force their hosts to die in creative ways to further their own life cycle
Why a nasty surprise lurks 100 years on from the lethal 1918 flu
1 January 2018
As the centenary of the great flu epidemic looms, we are right to be pessimistic – especially with H7N9 bird flu virus quietly circulating in China
Genital parasite crabs are struggling to find sex partners
19 December 2017
Parasitic crustaceans called castrator pea crabs spend most of their lives hiding in the sex organs of limpets, and that makes it difficult to find a mate
