In Antarctica's freezing depths, tiny creatures have mastered survival tactics that could unlock secrets to extreme cold resistance, with implications for science and medicine. Some of the most ...

If you come across a fat brownish-grey grub with sharp mouthparts on one end, your lawn patches could be a result of cutworms. I recommend treating your lawn with a nematode specifically for cutworms.

Entomologists would argue that the word “bugs” is only accurate when referring to a subset of insects with sucking mouthparts, but I’m leaning ... and even minuscule worms called nematodes that have ...

Nematodes produce hundreds of distinct effectors, providing redundancy and a capacity for rapid adaptation. "You take one effector away and a nematode laughs and says, 'I've got 10 more,'" he said.

A new study opens new avenues for combating soybean cyst nematodes, the most damaging pest for U.S. soybean crops. Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to highlight ...

The researchers made it after watching high-speed video of nematodes pinching themselves into odd shapes to fling themselves forward and backward. The researchers described the soft robot April 23 in ...

Nematodes can jump up to 20 times their body length - AdobeStock The device, made up of a silicone rod with a carbon-fibre spine, was made after watching high-speed video of nematodes pressing ...