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...
How the Jewel Wasp turns Cockroaches into Zombies

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,...