Nematodes tiny yet mighty form wriggling towers to survive and travel as a team. Long thought to exist only in labs, scientists have now spotted these towers naturally forming in rotting orchard fruit ...

Yet despite the architectural complexity of these towers, the worms inside showed no obvious role in differentiation. Individuals from the base and the apex were equally mobile, fertile, and strong, ...

What do you do when food is running low and you are a tiny, millimetre-long worm? The answer, it turns out, is join up with thousands of your fellows to make a tentacle-like superorganism that can ...

C. elegans nematodes in their squiggly, non-towering mode. If you're the outdoorsy type, you may have occasionally stumbled upon a colony of ants assembling itself into a tower-like structure to avoid ...