They may be two of the most influential notes in funk-rock history: the soaring, plaintive start to guitarist Eddie Hazel's legendary solo in Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain." The song, an audacious, ...

When Diane Ullman's Entomology 1 class walked in the door Monday, they were not expecting to create art. And they were definitely not expecting to create that art with the help of squirming maggots.

The use of medicinal maggots, sometimes called maggot debridement therapy, was first widely reported during the time of Napoleon. His general surgeon reportedly used maggots as a technique of cleaning ...

In a bloody battle during World War I, two wounded soldiers were stranded on the battlefield in France, hidden and overlooked under some brush. Suffering femur fractures and flesh wounds around their ...

I know it’s just a robot, with skin made of silicone and muscles powered by air pressure. But as its body moves with a perfectly smooth cascading contraction, my throat tightens and my stomach ...