Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one museum we must visit every time we go to DC even though it doesn’t have a ...

Zombie fungi were already controlling insects 100 million years ago, according to a recent study of fossils trapped in ...

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...

A Post Office manager claims he was left traumatised after biting into a Tesco sandwich and finding a live cockroach ...

The cordyceps species in "The Last of Us," Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is real and does exactly what the show purports —just ...

Your insecticide doesn’t do squat against cockroaches Not only can cockroaches withstand what nature throws at them, but they can even withstand the insecticides made to kill them.

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.