To see if changing the bacteria’s color would have an effect, Dr. Ghosh next put worms on a mutated strain of P. aeruginosa that was beige rather than blue. This time, the worms didn’t move ...

As they neared the end of their life, the tiny worms moved more and more slowly. "Suddenly there appears a sort of ghostly blue fluorescence," Gems tells Jacki Lyden, host of weekends on All ...

elegans can sense and avoid the color blue even though they lack even the most basic light-sensing systems, Veronique Greenwood reports for the New York Times. When the worms forage for microbes ...

A blue “death wave” ripples down the worms’ bodies for up to six hours as the life drains out of them—a phenomenon that is yielding insights into how death spreads throughout an organism.

In a short space of time, we were able to present a paper detailing 18 new species records for the country and 2 new species to science (one of them being my blue worm!), however I would love to ...