In 1998, scientists published the first complete genome of a multicellular organism—the worm Caenorhabditis elegans. At the same time, new technologies were emerging to help researchers manipulate ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Researchers have developed a "molecular worm" algorithm that makes it easier and faster to simulate the passage of a molecule through the labyrinth of a chemical system, a progression that is critical ...

An abstract picture, by definition, refers to no reality but its own. But lately several abstract painters have begun to create works that utilize one of the most venerable conventions of ...

Imagine looking into your irritated eye for a pesky eyelash, only to pull out a translucent, wiggling worm nearly a half inch long. "I looked at it, and it was moving," recalled 28-year-old Abby ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Recovering adman, now filmmaker and entrepreneur. This article is more than 10 years old. I recently had the pleasure of ...

INCONSOLABLE MEMORIES by Edmundo Desnoes. 155 pages. New American Library. $4.50. This book, first published in 1965 in Cuba, is less compelling as fiction than as reportage from that near, yet remote ...

Scrappy goes fishing tying a worm onto his hook before casting it into the water to face a myriad of fish with sharp teeth Can the worm escape from being devoured ...

Wisdom from the lips of a wrinkled old worm. “Okay, listen up, ‘cuz I’m gonna tell ya’ perzactly what The World is like. Most of the time it looks real dark and kind’a dry ‘n crumbly feelin’. But when ...