Worms are useful in the garden and great for fish bait, but one of their talents has remained hidden — until now. Scientists have discovered that worms can manufacture tiny semiconductors.

The Code Red worm tried to bring down the Net last year using a similar strategy. Skip to main content. Scientific American. October 28, 2002. ... Ebay and other top dot-coms low.

At King's College in London, researchers fed an ordinary red worm, Lumbricus rubellus, soil laced with metals.The worm produced quantum dots, nano-sized semiconductors that are used in imaging ...

Those red worms—ranging from half an inch to an inch long—were found in the tap water of a small town. Yikes. Right now, residents of Colcord, Oklahoma have been asked to not drink water, ...

As I write this, there are two new fast-spreading Internet worms for Windows users: Apost does the now-familiar "e-mail itself to everyone" thing we've come to expect from Windows worms and ...

Worms are useful in the garden and great for fish bait, but one of their talents has remained hidden — until now. Scientists have discovered that worms can manufacture tiny semiconductors.

Little red worms in a water garden this time of year are most likely bloodworms. They're not parasites, and won't hurt aquatic plants or fish.

The parasite Eustrongylides excisus, commonly known as red-worm-of-trout, can eat through the walls of intestines in fish and anything that eats the fish including, in very rare cases, humans.