The history of the wax jacket traces how a practical garment evolved from maritime protection into a lasting icon of British ...

Researchers wanted to quantify how much charge a jumping parasitic roundworm needed to latch on to its fruit fly host.Credit...By Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez Supported by By Alexa Robles-Gil For small ...

Up to two billion people globally are infected with soil-transmitted parasitic worms (helminths). Hookworms are a major cause of iron deficiency anemia because they feed on blood in the intestine.

Researchers are working on manipulating the digestive systems of wax worms to create a scalable way of disposing of plastic. In 2017, European researchers discovered a potential solution. The larvae ...

It’s hot now, but following the weeks of heavy rain in North Texas, an invasive species has been on the rise in the D-FW Metroplex. It is important that both humans and animals don’t come in contact ...

In a world drowning in plastic waste, a surprising hero could be emerging: the wax worm. Biologist Federica Bertocchini, co-founder of the startup Plastic Entropy based in Reims, France, is leading ...

Following weeks of heavy rainfall, hammerhead worms have been reported more frequently throughout Texas. The invasive species is not a direct threat to humans or pets. The worms don't bite but do ...

The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it administers death by Silly String. In the leaf litter of tropical and ...

The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it was easy enough: Open a Terminal shell, paste some commands from GitHub, watch characters ...

They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out. A laboratory image of Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, aka the "pigbutt worm," an ...