This Worm Was Chilling in a Lab for Years. Turns Out It’s a Record-Breaker

For over 20 years, the 3-foot-long ribbon worm Baseodiscus the Eldest (B for short) was more a “long-time acquaintance” than ...
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What are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-time

Solutions to Einstein's famous equations back in the 20th century describe 'wormholes,' or tunnels through space-time. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via GettyImages Imagine two towns on two ...

The Methuselah worm: The oldest university in the US is home to the world's oldest ribbon worm

Penicillin, X-rays, vulcanized rubber—some of the greatest scientific discoveries happened by accident. Thanks to his love of ...

A Mathematician Thinks Black Holes Could Be ‘Cut and Pasted’ to Form a Wormhole

A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official ...