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You've probably heard stories about dogs that can sniff out cancer in humans, but what about nematodes? These tiny worms, which measure only about a millimeter in length, are attracted to the odor ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

Scientists revived a 46,000-year-old worm that was frozen in Siberian permafrost. When they brought it back to life, the worm started having babies. Small worms like this are known to have the ability ...

CORONADO, Calif. — Thousands upon thousands of little pink, slimy critters have been stirring up conversation on social media as beachgoers in Coronado have been asking, ‘What are they?’ For this ...

Bengaluru: Scientists at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru have built a new setup that mimics soil to watch how small worms change the way they move when the ground ...

The soil roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has just 959 cells and a body that is mostly gut and reproductive organs. Yet its reproduction is similar enough to ours that scientists like Francis McNally ...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Inside the mountaintop glaciers of the Pacific Northwest lives a mysterious, and often, overlooked creature. They're small, black, ...

A TikTok video of harvested cherries soaking in vinegar and ice reveals small worms crawling out of the fruit. The larvae are a result of cherry fruit flies, which lay eggs on the fruit. While ...

Andrew Fire and colleagues first described RNA interference (RNAi) in Caenorhabditis elegans in 1998. 1 Exogenous double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) injected into cells effectively induced silencing of an ...