Here are just a few of the misleading names we commonly use for foods, animals, inventions, historical events, and more.

Many of us think of earthworms as helpful garden assistants, mixing soil and providing nutrients for our plants. But forests in Minnesota and other parts of North America, where glaciers wiped out ...

You’ve probably seen or heard at least once in your lifetime about fireflies – the famous light-emitting insects! They form ...

Earthworms may be helpful in a compost heap or in the soil of a vegetable garden. But they are a destructive force in Minnesota’s hardwood forests – chomping up entire layers of the forest ...

A staple in laboratories worldwide, C. elegans is “an experimental dream,” said one scientist. A staple in laboratories worldwide, C. elegans is “an experimental dream,” said one scientist.

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A deep-sea submersible found worms and snails living in cavities below the sea floor — the first time animals have been discovered in such habitats. The creatures may have been pushed into their ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge near the Galápagos Islands. Giant worms ...

Multicolor persistent luminescent materials for dynamic optical anti-counterfeiting by Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS ...

Worms the Board Game does a remarkably good job taking all the silly weapons, explosive barrels, destructible terrain, and disastrous chain reactions that made the classic multiplayer videogame so ...