In the depths of the ocean resides a creature that plays a surprisingly crucial role in our planet’s climate system. The ...

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called ...

If you’ve ever seen adult jumping worms, there’s no mistaking them. Found near the surface of soil and larger than your ...

Spring has sprung in Ontario, and with temperatures soaring into the high teens this week, there are some warm-weather creepy ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

Viewing the worms as 'active, polymer-like matter', researchers have now explained this surprising fact. In a crowded room, we naturally move slower than in an empty space. Surprisingly ...

Scientists at the University of Toronto studying the hermaphroditic worm Caenorhabditis elegans found that amyloid-like ...

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a worm's length is much larger than its width (i.e., it is spaghetti-like), and moreover it is wiggly—or in more scientific terms: It behaves like an active polymer. The researchers suspected ...