When the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans gets caught by its fungal predator Arthrobotrys oligospora, it doesn't just wriggle endlessly—it suddenly "freezes," stopping all movement and feeding as ...

If an individual can warn their group about danger, they might be able to overcome it. It seems that even a nematode worm will try to warn fellow creatures about threatening microbes like the ...

Researchers have uncovered the molecular mechanism responsible for turning migratory actions on and off in nematode worms. The team found that the protein syntaxin plays a vital role in storing memory ...

Marijuana (cannabis) is well known for giving people the 'munchies.' Not only does it make people want to eat more, but it also makes them crave the tastiest, most high-calorie foods. Now a new study ...

Nematode worms seek out high-calorie food after they consume a cannabis-like substance, much like people who get the “munchies” after smoking marijuana. The finding suggests that cannabis hijacks an ...

A new study in Current Biology has found that nematode worms C. elegans have the same response to cannabinoids as humans do. The study found that the nematodes become hungrier for foods they like and ...

A picture of the newly thawed nematode under the microscope. A microscopic worm survived in the Siberian permafrost for a record-breaking 46,000 years, scientists have discovered — tens of thousands ...

Pv1-induced learned avoidance causes avoidance of P. mendocina, a beneficial natural bacterial species. Schematic outlining the findings of the study. Prior to exposure to pathogenic P. vranovensis, ...

(Nanowerk News) Measuring the temperature of objects at a nanometer-scale has been a long challenge, especially in living biological samples, because of the lack of precise and reliable ...

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Arachnophobia is the technical term for an irrational or severe fear of spiders. It’s also the name of an incredibly campy yet satisfying horror film from 1990. In the movie, a previously undiscovered ...

When Cristina Ledón-Rettig first noticed worms in the little balls of poop, she thought something had gone wrong. Ledón-Rettig studies dung beetles, and she breeds one species—the taurus scarab—in her ...