Microscopic worms that live their lives in the highly radioactive environment of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) appear to do so completely free of radiation damage. Nematodes collected from the ...

Vinegar eel "flash mob" caught under the microscope! Researchers were stunned when they measured the force of the roiling ...

Nature seems to offer an escape from the hustle and bustle of city life, but the world at your feet may tell another story. Even in the shade of a fruit tree, you could be surrounded by tiny ...

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

Deep beneath the Siberian permafrost, scientists revived a microscopic worm frozen in suspended animation for nearly 46,000 years. The tiny nematode, entombed inside ancient rodent burrows preserved ...

Tiny worm makes for big evolutionary discovery Scientists have described 'Uncus,' the oldest ecdysozoan and the first from the Precambrian period Date: November 18, 2024 Source: University of ...

New research from the laboratory of Scott Leiser, Ph.D., in the Molecular and Integrative Physiology Department at the University of Michigan Medical School, reveals how a single longevity-related ...

Worm tracks show how worms move over time and are the basis for recognising the effects of disease mutations as well as candidate treatments that make disease model worms move like wild type ones. The ...

The winners of a microscopic video competition have been announced, and among the remarkable entries is an incredible clip of a tiny tardigrade riding a roundworm. The Nikon Small World in Motion ...

Everyone has a past. That includes the millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms that make up a major animal group called the Ecdysozoa. Until recently, details about this group’s ...