A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

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Blame it on a worm. The mystery of why Colorado was so hard-hit by the scourge of whirling disease may be solved by a small aquatic worm known as tubifex tubifex. Whirling disease is caused by a ...

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a sweeping motion to clean their own environment. Physicists at the University of ...