Cockroaches have always been the stuff of late-night horror, those tiny brown streaks that vanish into the dark the moment you flick on the kitchen light. But in a new study from North Carolina State University, scientists have shown that these unwelcome guests are doing more than raiding crumbs and testing your courage: they are quietly contaminating the air you breathe.In apartment complexes across Raleigh, researchers tracked how the number […]

When photos of a strange worm began circulating on Facebook, people assumed it was another deep-sea hoax. But the creature is real. Meet Eulagisca gigantea, the Antarctic scale worm — an animal that looks like it crawled out of a Ridley Scott storyboard.A Worm That Looks Like It Came From SpaceThe Antarctic scale worm was first described back in 1939 by zoologist Charles Monro, but it rarely makes headlines outside […]