Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before.

Scientists have identified a previously unknown microscopic roundworm living in Utah's Great Salt Lake. Nematode, formally ...

A piece of rotting fruit is likely covered in hundreds if not thousands of microscopic roundworms, including C. elegans—a popular experimental model system for studying neurogenetics. With a lifespan ...

RIVERSIDE — Chemical pesticides have come under a lot of scrutiny lately for their potential effects on human health and the environment. In fact, several cities across the country have started taking ...

Jeff Corwin, a biologist and wildlife conservationist, said "it's always important when we discover new life," after researchers at the University of Utah discovered a new species of nematodes, or ...

Microscopic roundworms may hold the key to understanding what is happening in the brain when the instinct of an animal changes in order to survive. In a newly published paper in the journal Current ...