A woman takes a photo inside a cave at Minnesota's Ice Castles at The Minnesota State Fair Grounds in Falcon Heights on Sunday. (Carlos Gonzalez/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Pinworms are small, thin, pin-shaped worms that sometimes live in the human colon and rectum. They're also called threadworms. They're about 1/4- to 1/2-inch long — about the size of a staple.

Ants and humans competed in navigating a maze with a large load. While humans outperformed individually, ant groups excelled collectively, showing strategic coordination and persistence. The study ...

Former President Jimmy Carter worked for decades to eradicate Guinea worm disease around the world. Whereas 3.5 million cases of the painful parasitic infection were recorded in 1986, preliminary ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms up to 3 feet long. The noodle-thin ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as much as 3-feet-long. The noodle ...