Worms news, articles and features | New Scientist

Skip to content

Snakes are quite quantum, mathematically speaking

Life

Wiggly worms and quantum objects follow surprisingly similar equations

An equation developed to describe the motion of undulating animals and robots looks like the famous Schrödinger equation from quantum mechanics

News

Blobs of worms untangle in milliseconds with a corkscrew wiggle

Life

Blobs of worms untangle in milliseconds with a corkscrew wiggle

News

Electrical field of a fruit fly

Life

Jumping parasitic worms use static electricity to hit their targets

News

Why don’t worms harm plant roots when they stir up soil?

Last Word

Why don’t worms harm plant roots when they stir up soil?

Regulars

Picture of ancient worm

Life

540-million-year-old worm was first segmented animal that could move

News

nematode worm

Life

Every single neuron in an animal mapped out for the first time

News

When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy

Life

When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy

News

Fossilised worm holes

Environment

Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

News