When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

Computer-modeled body movements of a simulated worm (top) and a real worm (bottom). The graphs show body movement patterns over time for both worms (left). On the right, moving images show how closely ...

More than half a billion years ago, a worm-like creature wriggled its last, creating a groove preserved as a fossil that offers new insights into some of the earliest animal movement. The origins of ...

Worms move faster in an environment riddled with randomly-placed obstacles than they do in an empty space. This surprising observation by physicists at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands ...

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 ...

In this case, the team used them to directly control the movements of C. elegans, a tiny worm commonly used in lab studies. Two opsins were implanted into these worms – one, which originated in ...

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 ...

As worms enter their twilight years, their bodies become wrinkled and flaccid much like humans’ do, according to an exhaustive study of old age in worms. A team from Rutgers, the State University of ...

What, you are no doubt asking, is a worm a blob? Well, it’s a blob of worms, obviously. More specifically, it’s a blob of California blackworms. It’s not a flock, nor a swarm nor a school. It’s a big, ...

Scientists have developed a new method to simulate the complex movements of animals with exceptional accuracy. The research team set out to solve a long-standing challenge in biology -- how to ...