The Harmful Effects of Malaria

The Harmful Effects of Malaria

Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by Plasmodium, which is spread through the bite of an infected mosquito. Malaria is only transmitted by mosquitoes belonging to the Anopheles genus. Fever, vomiting, and/or headache are some of the symptoms of the condition. The...
Superbugs

Superbugs

Tiny, solitary wasps are uninteresting to humans; after all, they do not manipulate our minds in order to serve us up as willing, live meals to their newborns, as cockroaches do. The female wasp takes over the minds of the cockroaches she feeds to her offspring,...
Superbugs

How the Jewel Wasp turns Cockroaches into Zombies

Tiny, solitary wasps are uninteresting to humans; after all, they do not manipulate our minds in order to serve us up as willing, live meals to their newborns, as cockroaches do. The female wasp takes over the minds of the cockroaches she feeds to her offspring,...

Theories on the Beginning of Life on Earth

The beginning of life on earth. That is a subject that nobody thinks about. Other than a few theories, there is not really a lot of hard evidence. Some scientists think that life emerged from chemosynthesis ,some RNA world hypothesis, and some panspermia . ...
The Earth is Heating Up

The Earth is Heating Up

Climate change is a thing that everyone has heard about but no one really knows what is going on. Climate change is a change in the patterns of temperature or precipitation over very long periods of time. Climate is very different from weather because weather is the...