EuroWorm is building an open genomic inventory of European marine annelids to combat biodiversity loss and accelerate species discovery.

Plastic waste management is a pressing ecological, social, and economic challenge that has looked to diverse chemical-biology strategies to facilitate biodegradation. In a new report now on Science ...

Two new worm species were found living inside a real underwater "glass castle." ...

Quick Take Hammerhead worms often reproduce through fragmentation, allowing a single individual to start an entire population ...

In one of the strangest paths to reproduction, this tiny Japanese sea worm actually grows a ‘mini-me’ at its rear end, which it then deploys so it can swim off on its own in search of similar ...

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an impossible art: turning lethal elements into armor. Meet Paralvinella hessleri, the ...

To blunt the toxic arsenic in the waters where it lives, a deep-sea worm combines it with another chemical to produce a less toxic compound. By Jack Tamisiea Arsenic is a toxic metal, and exposure to ...

The statement that "human-level artificial intelligence is the last invention mankind need ever make" has been much bandied about of late. It implies that once we have invented something as smart as ...

For those battling chronic inflammatory diseases, effective and sustainable treatments remain elusive. Now, scientists are exploring symbiont chemistry as an unconventional but promising source of ...

Mud blister worms make their homes in the shells of oysters and other shellfish, where they weaken their hosts.

In 2025, University of Delaware graduate students contributed more than 30 publications in internationally recognized biological journals, covering topics including microbiology, worm biology, eye ...

Fruit flies, mice, zebrafish, yeast and the tiny worm C. elegans are model organisms that have carried modern biology on ...