Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This microscopic, parasitic fungus evolved to hijack ants’ ...

During the Cold War, the CIA launched a secret program known as MKUltra to investigate mind control, interrogation, and psychological manipulation. Using LSD, sensory deprivation, hypnosis, and other ...

Imagine a common ant scouring its habitat for food when it stumbles upon a snail’s slime balls. The ant chows down the snail slime, which, unbeknownst to it, contains the larvae of Dicrocoelium ...

The CIA's Wild West era of mind control, bioweapons and secret human testing is back in the spotlight as lawmakers prepare to revisit the notorious MKUltra program decades after the agency destroyed ...