The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

But new research shows there’s another force working to their advantage: static electricity. At human scale, static electricity is little more than a curiosity. You walk across the carpet, friction ...

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

To reproduce, these minuscule creatures—roughly the size of a pinpoint—must leap 25 times their body length and land on a flying insect as it zooms overhead. Given that wind, gravity and air ...

In darkness, a wormlike creature squirms. A tiny nematode weaves its way between grains of rock and particles of organic ...

Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...

Scientists thawed ancient soil in the lab and tiny nematodes, Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, “woke up” after being frozen for ...

Japanese researchers found slime mold secretes organic compounds that repel parasitic nematodes from plant roots without ...

Scientists were able to reanimate a nematode that had laid dormant in Siberian permafrost for approximately 46,000 years, according to a study published Thursday in the journal PLOS Genetics—adding to ...

University of Minnesota soybean breeders are working to increase oil content in soybeans from around 22% to closer to 30%, a ...

Plant Health Care, Inc. (PHC), a wholly owned subsidiary of PI Industries, Ltd. is pleased to announce a significant milestone in the development of a new solution for nematode protection. On the 9th ...