Rapidly change your password, the Microsoft security team urges as Shai-Hulud Dune Worm cloud attacks continue.

The worm is a nemertean, a group of soft-bodied marine predators found from tide pools to the deep sea. Its species is ...

A biologist with a passion for invertebrates had been caring for an unassuming worm in his lab for decades. Only recently did ...

Jonathan Allen, a biology professor at William & Mary in Virginia, has a very strange pet: a very very long ribbon worm ...

Penicillin, X-rays, vulcanized rubber—some of the greatest scientific discoveries happened by accident. Thanks to his love of ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

Caring for critters does take a bit of commitment but, as a starter pet, worms are pretty low maintenance. They don't need walking, they only need feeding once a week or so, and instead of having to ...

Fly fishing came into vogue in the early 20th century, and with it came criticism of worm fishing: It was too easy. The debate was considered to be of such importance that, in 1904, Atlantic Monthly ...

For parasitic worms of the genus Anisakis, life typically goes like this: after floating through the ocean in an egg, they hatch as wriggling larvae with a peculiar desire—to be eaten. Small ...

On March 31, we'll see our second Worm Moon of the year. It's also a blue moon, or, a blue Worm Moon. Here's when to see the rare event and what the term means.