A cheap lens, flashlight and a little plastic wrap can turn a smart phone into a field microscope to test children for intestinal worms, researchers reported on Monday. Microscopes are scarce in the ...

Humans tend to waste a lot of food. It's a problem that has led innovators to come up with all kinds of ideas — for how we could change grocery shopping to how we could change cooking to how we could ...

Garbage: It’s a foul business. Tom Szaky, the founder and CEO of TerraCycle, knows that’s the popular opinion. He’s been asking business students at New York University annually how many of them would ...

LIVE IN MULDROW ... AND SHOWS US HOW THE WORMS WORK. IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU SEE EVERYDAY, BUT WHAT USED TO BE A SKATING RINK HERE IN MULDROW IS NOW HOME TO MILLIONS OF WORMS WHO COULD SOON BE TURNING ...

I first learned about ‘in situ’ worm communities several years ago in fruit orchards. Farmers were using a combination of in-orchard and in-ground vermiculture (cultivating/farming of worms) and ...

Fertilizer giant Scotts sues TerraCycle, a small company in New Jersey, for false advertising that sells fertilizers made from worm droppings. Farmers and gardeners have long used worm droppings but ...

Using stool samples from Viking latrines, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have genetically mapped one of the oldest human parasites – the whipworm. The mapping reflects the parasite's ...