A worm has been discovered which spreads by copying itself onto removable drives such as USB flash drives, in an attempt to spread information about AIDS and HIV. The W32/LiarVB-A worm hunts for ...

Vermicomposting is the process of using vegetable kitchen waste from meal preparation and other organic materials to make a really fine soil amendment and letting red wiggler earthworms do all (most) ...

Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker ...

You don’t have to be 8 years old to appreciate the lowly earthworm. But it does help to be a gardener. If the idea of crawly earthworms creeps you out, stay with me here. I’ll try to get you past the ...

Unbeknownst to most landlubbers, polychaetes rule the seas. There are at least 10,000 species of these swimming bristly worms, some of which pop with brilliant colors or light up with a bioluminescent ...

They’re long and skinny. They’re boomerang-headed and coated in toxic mucus. And they’ve been hiding in plain sight in the US for a long time. Invasive hammerhead flatworms have distinctive curved ...

SEQUIM — Brad Griffith gets down and dirty with earthworms and loves it. “You’re talking about the bottom of the barrel here,” he said with a wry grin, indicating that if you can’t have a sense of ...

The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it was easy enough: Open a Terminal shell, paste some commands from GitHub, watch characters ...

June 21, 2011: The U.S. Department of Defense believes a computer worm (agent.btz), introduced into their heavily protected (not connected to the Internet) SIPRNet network three years ago, was ...

When we last wrote about the Storm Worm in September, Heise Security had noted that the growing botnet had not yet been used for much, but could be a threat in the future. "[A]lthough the network has ...