What do you get when you take an alien parasite and smush it together with a human being? Would you get to become a supercharged, head-eating anti hero like Venom? Or would you die a slow and painful ...

Sonic Terror is a turn-based tactical RPG where music serves as brutal magic and is the only weapon against a space alien parasite that has turned silence into a new ...

Human activity brings with it alien species and creates excellent conditions that allow them to become established in an otherwise barren Arctic landscape. (Kristine Bakke Westergaard, NTNU via SWNS) ...

Thousands of alien species could invade the Arctic, warns a new study. Warmer temperatures and more tourists make it easier for non-native plants and animals to get a foothold in far northerly ...

Kwesi Akonu Adom Mensah Forson receives no funding, compensation or financial support from any companies or organizations related to malaria vaccines, drugs or diagnostic technologies. His research on ...

In recent years, a surprisingly large number of alien species have managed to flourish in Svalbard. In 2024, common meadow rue, Thalictrum flavum ,was identified for the first time in Svalbard, in ...

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn't confined to poor, rural areas—it's a global threat that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But something is shifting. As a malaria researcher working on my Ph.D., I study how ...