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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鈥檚 experience raising worms 鈥� 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

Mind

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

Life

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

Life

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

Life

Tiny nematode worms can grow enormous mouths and become cannibals

Snakes are quite quantum, mathematically speaking

Life

Wiggly worms and quantum objects follow surprisingly similar equations

Life

Blobs of worms untangle in milliseconds with a corkscrew wiggle

Electrical field of a fruit fly

Life

Jumping parasitic worms use static electricity to hit their targets

Picture of ancient worm

Life

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

nematode worm

Life

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

A complete map of all the neurons and their connections in both sexes of an animal 鈥� a tiny worm 鈥� has been described for the first time

Environment

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

Environment

Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

Earth

Invasive earthworms threaten growth of new North American trees

Environment

Shape-shifting worm creates five different versions of itself