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Nature 33 min

Parasites That Control Minds

A fungal spore drills into an ant and rewrites the mission statement

A fungal spore drills into an ant's exoskeleton. A wasp performs brain surgery on a cockroach. A single-celled organism rewires a rat's sexual arousal — and might be nudging two billion humans toward riskier lives. This is the story of nature's puppet masters and the deeply uncomfortable question they force us to ask: who's really in control?

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