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The Barbados threadsnake may be tiny, but it has made big news in the scientific world. This elusive little creature, listed ...
That question led to what Ingrid M. Lubbers, a soil researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, christened the “earthworm dilemma” in a paper published in 2013 in Nature Climate ...
The unlikely source of this new evidence is actually earthworm DNA. The researchers sequenced high-quality genomes of several different earthworm species for the first time ever.
Earthworm Jim 2 is supposedly an action/platformer like its predecessor, but truthfully very few of its stages play out that way -- more often this game ignores what most would consider "normal ...
The earthworm robot falls into the field of “ soft robotics,” where engineers and developers design robots with soft and flexible bodies, usually comprised of silicone or rubber.
It's all possible thanks to what worms actually do under the ground: eat, excrete, and wiggle around. Researchers make astonishing find about earthworm impact on crop plants — and it could ...
Native, possibly giant, earthworm science in the Pacific Northwest is advancing with the discovery of two new specimens from opposite sides of the interior Columbia River basin. University of ...
It's true that Darwin's earthworm work probably is not as important as his work on natural selection. But it does provide an insight into his genius.
At the Earthworm Festival, you can even join in on the process. For $5, you can pick out a full-sized pumpkin and turn it into a jack-o-lantern at their carving station.
Earthworm-toxic soil insecticides, like diazinon, bendiocarb, and carbaryl, have been replaced by chemistries that are more selective. This article describes a promising new approach to managing ...