Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing a new self-propelled robotic sleeve inspired by the earthworm.

Dean chats with Dr. Riddhi Das, a soft robotics researcher developing earthworm-inspired robots for planetary exploration. They discuss how these wriggly-yet-rigid innovations, with autonomous drive ...

Do you have worms in your garden? That's great! Does your dog have worms? That's terrible! Garden worms (earthworms) won't hurt your dog but some dogworms (parasites) can make your garden dangerous ...

Early November found me digging my dahlias for winter storage. Finding handfuls of earthworms in the moist soil clinging to the tubers made me realize that I wasn’t the only one working in the garden ...