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 ...

What comes out of the tail end of worms appears to be very good for crops. On small farms and in gardens around the world, a legless invertebrate has been quietly helping crops grow — simply by eating ...

BAY CITY, MI — Bay City is offering residents a new program where they can turn their food waste into worm food and, ultimately, fertilizer. Bay City recently launched the pilot food scrap collection ...

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 ...

Worms can change the world, or at least that's what inmates at the Monroe Correctional Complex are learning. "We basically give these guys a nice stir. It's basically to wake the worms up," Juan ...

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 ...

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 ...