New research suggests that an “often-overlooked” parasitic infection, already linked to bladder cancer, may also raise the risk of cervical cancer.

The new species belongs to a group of flatworms known as planarians, which are typically non-parasitic. The new species was found on the Leizhou Peninsula, on the southern coast of China. The research ...

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Celebrate international aquatic animals day on april 3rd with a high quality slow motion video that captures the grace and power of marine life. from shimmering fish to drifting jellyfish ...

Aquatic Imitations co-owner Jeremy Knapp ties a grannom caddis dry fly. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jeremy Knapp spent two decades of his life as a pastor and as a counselor, but he ...

Scientists have identified a new species of microscopic worms living in the ground below South African mines, isolated from fracture water gushing up from miles below the Earth's surface. It is the ...

Wolfram Remmers, a graduate student at the University of Koblenz and Landau in Germany, had always wanted to visit a rainforest. So when the chance to take a summer field course with a nongovernmental ...

Whether in wastewater, ponds, puddles, or swamps, this aquatic plant thrives as long as there’s enough sunlight and carbon dioxide. But duckweed isn’t just prolific – it’s also packed with potential.

Why, in the face of everything our precarious green world endures, of all the problems out there to solve, would anyone spend 13 years trying to code a microscopic worm into existence? By way of ...

microscopic algae that thrive even under ice. Scientists studying these organisms found they not only help clean the water but also sustain the aquatic food web during the colder months. Their clever ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.