The worm sphere is able to conserve water, since it exposes less surface area to the air than the worms would if they remained solo. Some of these balls can grow as large as 100,000 worms.

Tiny worms survive shuttle crash Leslie Katz Former Culture Editor Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Blobs of worms flow like a fluid, plop like a solid and fascinate scientists. A worm by itself is as solid as any other living animal. But a mass of aquatic California blackworms ...

Tiny worms called C elegans have been into space before, but they're usually put in agar jelly instead of liquid. Living in liquid allows the worms to experience things like weightlessness.

Worms survive first space mission, living in liquid - establishing them as a key model for studying the long-term effects of weightlessness on animals.

With so many different species of worms out there, it isn’t too common to find a new one, but that is exactly what happened recently. Dr. Aida Verdes of the National Museum of Natural Sciences found a ...

The museum researchers, led by worm curator Mark Siddall and his graduate student Sebastien Kvist, used a technique known as “DNA barcoding” in which a small region of the genome is decoded to ...