Under the clinical sterility of glassware, life can do some rather curious things. Whether such behaviors are exclusive to laboratory environments or represent a common survival strategy is often a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The star of this picture isn't the fruit fly, it's the columns of thousands of nematodes on the right working together to catch a ...

Research out today is the first to document nematodes in the wild amassing into towers, likely as a way to reach new places. Reading time 4 minutes Scientists have just discovered something most of us ...

Word of a curious worm phenomenon has spread among scientists over the years. Words like, “they’re living in giant towers, Jim.” An understandably perplexing concept, but one that we can now confirm ...

Scientists have discovered that nematodes, tiny roundworms, can form coordinated living towers to hitch rides with passing insects during times of food scarcity. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

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It's the stuff of nightmares: countless worms slithering over each other to form a slimy tower that can move like a single superorganism. And yet researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal ...

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some science news you may have missed. You’ve ...

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