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worms

Environment

How a DIY worm farm can compost food scraps, paper or a whole kangaroo

For those who want a little help composting, take a cue from James Woodford’s experience raising worms – both the small colony of wrigglers he keeps in a sensible bin in his city garden and the dumpster-sized worm farm he has that can turn even animal carcasses into nutrient-dense soil

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Mind

Mapping the structure of the brain doesn't fully explain its function

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Life

There could be 30,000 species of earthworms wriggling around the world

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Life

Leeches use their whole bodies to entomb and eat ultra-fast worms

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Life

Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals

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Snakes are quite quantum, mathematically speaking

Life

Wiggly worms and quantum objects follow surprisingly similar equations

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Blobs of worms untangle in milliseconds with a corkscrew wiggle

Life

Blobs of worms untangle in milliseconds with a corkscrew wiggle

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Electrical field of a fruit fly

Life

Jumping parasitic worms use static electricity to hit their targets

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Why don’t worms harm plant roots when they stir up soil?

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Why don’t worms harm plant roots when they stir up soil?

Regulars

Picture of ancient worm

Life

540-million-year-old worm was first segmented animal that could move

An extinct creature that resembled a cross between an earthworm and a millipede is the oldest known segmented animal able to move under its own power

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Life

Every single neuron in an animal mapped out for the first time

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Life

When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy

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Environment

Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

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Earth

Invasive earthworms threaten growth of new North American trees

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