A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...

A tiny worm that leaps high into the air — up to 25 times its body length — to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, scientists have found.

The parasitic roundworm Steinernema carpocapsae, which live in soil, are already known to leap some 25 times their body ...

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...