The economic impact of Internet worm attacks is staggering, with analysts reporting that the Bagle, Netsky and Mydoom worms combined caused several billion dollars in damage from lost productivity, ...

Teens Now is a series by Grace Lee that features teenagers around the world who have inspired others in creative ways. Last year, Jaeah Kim and Jae Kim, 17-year-old seniors at Hunter College High ...

Increasing numbers of students are asking to opt out of the science class ritual of dissecting frogs or fetal pigs, branding the practice cruel and insisting that they can learn as much from computer ...

This week in 1988, Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris unleashed his eponymous worm upon the Internet. The wave of infections grew to 10% of the entire Internet within 24 hours, causing ...

As a college undergraduate, I fell in love with parasitic worms. I was studying evolutionary biology, and I got caught up in the idea of organisms that made their world out of other organisms. I was ...

If your research involves Caenorhabditis elegans and you've ever dreaded the thought of ploughing through a never-ending pile of papers to understand that unfamiliar anatomical phenotype in your model ...

Chester Elementary 5th grade science Chester Elementary fifth-graders study worm anatomy in their science class. A science curriculum originated by district teachers and administrators has added more ...

To many parasitic worms, we are the world. And the way they've evolved to live within us — without wiping us out — is stunning. As a college undergraduate, I fell in love with parasitic worms. I was ...