Those celebrating the decidedly unofficial holiday of 4/20 on Thursday might experience a phenomenon known to scientists and the lay public as “the munchies.” Cannabis’ ability to stimulate appetite ...

A picture of the newly thawed nematode under the microscope. A microscopic worm survived in the Siberian permafrost for a record-breaking 46,000 years, scientists have discovered — tens of thousands ...

Nematodes have been spotted forming writhing towers of tiny worms in the wild for the first time, according to a report in the journal Current Biology. The bizarre behavior had previously only been ...

A new study in Current Biology has found that nematode worms C. elegans have the same response to cannabinoids as humans do. The study found that the nematodes become hungrier for foods they like and ...

It’s a well-known fact that using cannabis often leads to the “munchies,” prompting consumers to eat more and crave tasty, high-calorie foods. Now, a new study published in the journal Current Biology ...

What do you do when food is running low and you are a tiny, millimetre-long worm? The answer, it turns out, is join up with thousands of your fellows to make a tentacle-like superorganism that can ...

One Friday afternoon, not long after Oregon made cannabis legal in 2015, some lab researchers in the state embarked on a quirky experiment.The team worked with a type of tiny nematode worm called ...

SCN costs soybean farmers more than $1 billion annually. Crop rotation and resistant-variety selection can help manage SCN.

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to highlight ...