Certain parasitic worms survive by taking control of snail behavior. Instead of hiding, infected snails are driven into exposed areas where predators can easily find them. The worms manipulate ...

When roundworms stop reproducing, they can still move and function normally but lose their ability to detect certain food odors that once led them to their meals. Researchers at Nagoya University have ...

Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker ...

The causes of gear failure are diverse yet preventable—even tooth degradation and lubrication contamination. Following these ...

Scientists have revived 24,000-year-old bdelloid rotifer microworms. The rotifers were frozen in permafrost in a long-term cryptobiotic state. Lessons from these and other revived organisms could help ...

Beavers, earthworms, prairie dogs, elephants, and more don't just live in ecosystems, they reshape them to the benefit of ...

The kids seem more excited to be more hands-on because we have more tools than we did last year,’ says program leader Kira Higgins ...

How the TVA and TWRA are partnering to bring a prehistoric fish back to Tennessee after it was "wiped out" locally.

With a new year upon us, software-security experts disagree on SBOM utility — in theory, SBOMs are great, but in practice, ...

Life can be scary, and a lot of times we push certain fears aside just to get through the day. But when those fears show up ...