Radiation from the Chornobyl nuclear disaster hasn't damaged the genomes of worms living there today. The resilience could clarify human risk.

Robots often have a hard time navigating through debris, but robots designed based on worms and snakes could move around obstacles faster, thanks to an idea called mechanical intelligence.

Wrapping yam seeds in banana paper resulted in larger yams and higher crop yields, a new study in Africa shows.

Sexual selection can take place after mating, not just before, research on C. elegans worm sperm finds.

Tiny vinegar eels do "the wave" in a bead of water. "This wavelike collective motion has not been seen before in any other organisms this large."

Paper made from banana waste can protect potato seeds from potato cyst nematodes and increase yields, research shows.

The COVID-19 pandemic has boosted interest in home gardening. Three scientists who garden explain some basic methods for controlling common insects and microbes that can spoil your crop.

Sequencing the soybean cyst nematode genome was like solving a puzzle of a blue sky with all identical pieces. Here's how scientists did it.