Teens Now is a series by Grace Lee that features teenagers around the world who have inspired others in creative ways. Last year, Jaeah Kim and Jae Kim, 17-year-old seniors at Hunter College High ...

The economic impact of Internet worm attacks is staggering, with analysts reporting that the Bagle, Netsky and Mydoom worms combined caused several billion dollars in damage from lost productivity, ...

Increasing numbers of students are asking to opt out of the science class ritual of dissecting frogs or fetal pigs, branding the practice cruel and insisting that they can learn as much from computer ...

If your research involves Caenorhabditis elegans and you've ever dreaded the thought of ploughing through a never-ending pile of papers to understand that unfamiliar anatomical phenotype in your model ...

As a college undergraduate, I fell in love with parasitic worms. I was studying evolutionary biology, and I got caught up in the idea of organisms that made their world out of other organisms. I was ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It's because they make a special fluid that helps them breathe through their skin. And how do they move ...

Earthworms experience constant chemical interactions with bacteria, fungi, plants and small invertebrates across soil ecosystems. Even within their tissues, earthworms harbor symbiotic microbes and ...

A new microfluidic method preserves worm anatomy to link lipid signals with body structure using mass spectrometry imaging. Understanding how fat molecules are distributed and function in living ...

It shouldn't be all that surprising that some insects look downright terrifying under a microscope. It's not as if the creatures are widely known for their majestic beauty in general, though specific ...

To many parasitic worms, we are the world. And the way they've evolved to live within us — without wiping us out — is stunning. As a college undergraduate, I fell in love with parasitic worms. I was ...