Now researchers at MIT, Harvard University and Seoul National University have engineered a soft autonomous robot that moves via peristalsis, crawling across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an earthworm. The robot, made almost entirely of soft materials, is remarkably resilient: Even when stepped upon or bludgeoned with a hammer, the robot is able to inch away, unscathed.
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Genetic traces similar to those in vertebrate brains have been found in lowly worms, but not all scientists are convinced that complex brains were already in the works more than 500 million years ago... 
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LONDON (Reuters) - Who wants to live forever? Some flatworms do, even if it means no sex.
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Living World | C. elegans | What's the News: We've long had signs that when it comes to inheritance, DNA isn't the be-all, end-all.
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British garbage worms survive in space without human help Extraterrestrial nematode freed from mankind's dominance
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A dozen new species of brilliantly colored worms with large "lips" have been discovered deep in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists say.
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- Video see also: http://www.openworm.org Via Gerd Moe-Behrens
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Parasitic worms leave millions of victims paralyzed, epileptic, or worse. So why isn’t anyone mobilizing to eradicate them?. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.
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Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.
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Parasitic worms help the immune system control inflammation and improve wound healing, scientists say in a study reported in Nature Medicine.
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Living World | evolution | One of the strangest aspects of our understanding of evolutionary biology is the tendency to conflate a sprawling protean dynamic into a sliver of a phenomenon.
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The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have up sticks and colonize space. But is the human body up to the challenge?
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The strategies used by the tiny C. elegans roundworm to control its motions are remarkably similar to those used by the human brain to command movement of eyes, arms, and legs.
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