16-04-28 Evolution can go quickly when it has to - at least for small organisms. Researchers exposed a natural setting in Denmark to artificial climate change and discovered that soil just half a degree warmer caused the genome of small worms to change surpr...

14-08-18 It has been speculated that soil-dwelling parasitic worms use their sense of smell to find suitable hosts for infection. Research published on August 14th in PLOS Pathogens comparing odor-driven behaviors in different roundworm（蛔虫） species revea...

14-06-20 Worms stop ageing when they are starved of food and can go onto live twice as long as normal, a new study has shown. 一项新研究发现，蠕虫在缺乏食物的情况下会停止老化并能存活正常情况下两倍的时间。 Researchers found that nematode（线虫） worms entered...

13-01-18 Weight loss following infection with intestinal worms is the body's way of fighting off the parasites, University of Manchester researchers have said. 曼彻斯特大学的研究人员称，人体感染肠蠕虫后通过减轻体重这种方式对抗寄生虫。 The immune system hijac...

10-05-26 If you're headed to a freshwater stream this summer and a friend dares you to eat a raw crayfish（小龙虾） don't do it. You could end up in the hospital with a severe parasitic（寄生的） infection. Physicians at Washington University School of Medic...

10-05-06 Drinking alcohol over a long period of time profoundly（深刻地，极度地） affects the brain, which adapts to the intoxicant（醉人的） and causes withdrawal symptoms（脱瘾症状，断除症状） when consumption stops. Neuroscientists from the University of...

10-02-02 Self- propagating传播的，繁殖的 worms are malicious恶毒的 computer programs, which, after being released, can spread throughout networks without human control, stealing or erasing hard drive data, interfering with干扰，妨碍 pre-installed programs an...