We’ve all lifted a rock or flowerpot and found a long, slimy worm underneath. But have you ever done so and found a long, slimy worm with a head shaped like a shovel or a hammer? If you have, you ...

Ready to give up backyard composting because it's too difficult? It may surprise you to learn that prolific (and kind-of-cute ...

If you’re a gardener and you’ve found composting difficult or frustrating, you’re not alone. LAist science reporter Jacob ...

This is the first instance of this crop produced in this medium. Chickpeas aren’t the first crop that comes to mind when you think about lunar agriculture. But a new study suggests the humble legume ...

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm.

Jumping” and “worm” are two words that don’t seem like they should go together. Just imagining such a thing is enough to ...

Life's capacity to survive in simulated lunar and Martian soils has been explored in two papers published in Scientific Reports. Treating simulated lunar soil with both symbiotic fungi and ...

All animals, including humans, experience stress. Not the type where you worry about paying bills, but metabolic ...

Ice Worms are ancient and deadly creatures you hear tale of in PDAs gathered at various bases, and confirmed by Al-An and your own encounters with them. Ice worms are surprise attack hunters and will ...

Amazon mollies don't need a man, and never will. A new study finds they can purge and repair genetic mutations that would otherwise plague a self-cloning species.

The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

THE recently-issued first part of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria contains an elaborate essay (of which we have something to say elsewhere today) by Mr. Baldwin Spencer, the ...