A baby tardigrade riding a nematode won $600 in Nikon's Small World in Motion Video Competition. Quinten Geldhof captured the video using a microscope and an iPhone. His setup cost under $1,000. The ...

Even under a microscope, the nematode Litylenchus crenatae subsp. mccannii doesn’t look like much. But it can bring a lot of damage: Researchers find it living in the buds of beech trees suffering ...

A predatory female nematode of the genus Clarkus under the microscope. The photograph may only be used for reports related to this news release and provided that the name of the photographer is ...

Tardigrades may be the world's cutest and most famous microscopic critters. Also known as water bears or moss piglets, tardigrades are waddling eight-legged animals with a reputation for survival.

From a baby tardigrade riding a nematode, to water droplets evaporating from the wing scales of a peacock butterfly, the winners of this year's Nikon Small World In Motion video microscopy competition ...

Some doctors say a troublingly high number of cancer-free people have tested positive on the tests sold by a Japanese start-up. Questions have been raised about the accuracy of a test sold by a ...

A photo of a cyst nematode's head viewed through a high-power microscope shows its esophageal glands, which produce effectors it uses to infect host plants. The image was digitally edited to highlight ...

UC Riverside scientists have discovered a tiny worm species that infects and kills insects. These worms, called nematodes, could control crop pests in warm, humid places where other beneficial ...

Move over Fido. The next animal to help people by sniffing out cancer could be a microscopic worm. Nematodes, also known as roundworms, are attracted to a compound released by lung cancer cells. When ...