worms

  • This Robot Thinks It’s A Tiny Little Worm

    This Robot Thinks It’s A Tiny Little Worm

    Artificial intelligence researchers have started looking to some of the simplest creatures for inspiration. Cyborgs who think like humans are still just a sci-fi dream, but scientists have had success recreating a less complicated brain. They have already created LEGO robot with the artificial mind of a worm.


  • What Death Looks Like: A Fast-Spreading Wave

    What Death Looks Like: A Fast-Spreading Wave

    Dead is dead, some famous TV show about holidaying on an island once said. But how does dead, well, look? How do billions of cells shut off at once? An international team of researchers found that it comes in a wave. Death spreads through a special necrosis pathway that leaves dead cells as it passes…


  • Worm Infects 45,000 Facebook Users

    Most of the time when you click on a Facebook link that a friend has posted, you get something nice. An amusing photo of a man embarrassed by his decisions. A video of Maru jumping into a box. But, if your friend has been infected with the Ramnit worm, you’ll end up losing something.


  • Worms From Hell Might Mean Worms From Mars

    You know how sometimes a piece of awesome news turns sour because it opens the door for something terrible? That’s what’s happening in South Africa, where the discovery of “worms from Hell” means subterranean life on Mars is a lot more likely. Except that that life would probably be “worms from Hell from Mars”.