By studying how worms use electric charge to jump onto flies, scientists are showing even physical strategies are embedded in ...

Imagine a world without the glow of your screen, the hum of your fridge, or the instant communication across continents.

To reproduce, these minuscule creatures—roughly the size of a pinpoint—must leap 25 times their body length and land on a flying insect as it zooms overhead. Given that wind, gravity and air ...

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

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