Composting is a popular way to keep food waste out of landfills and create a natural fertilizer for houseplants and gardens. Worm composting takes advantage of earthworms’ natural ability to break ...

Want to cut down on kitchen waste? Think about composting with an indoor worm bin. Friday is the deadline to register for a hands-on workshop that will teach people how to build an indoor worm bin to ...

New research from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) provides a powerful, scalable method for finding treatments ...

"The President and the Dragon,' premiering today, looks at Carter's momentous decision to try and wipe out a devastating and ...

Rhonda Sherman holds a handful of red wigglers and their castings. This story is part of an occasional series called Dream Jobs profiling North Carolinians with jobs that may be unique, distinctive or ...

A worm is a form of malware (malicious software) that operates as a self-contained application and can transfer and copy itself from computer to computer. It’s this ability to operate autonomously, ...

Inducing paralysis by shutting down motor neurons in the worm's ventral nerve cord from Samuel Lab on Vimeo. Knowing how individual cells act in animals is important, especially if you want to ...

The human microbiome appears to play a significant role in health and disease, but the mechanisms of how it does so is not well understood. Researchers have used the nematode C. elegans to decipher ...