A team of scientists has mapped the regions surrounding stem cells in planarians—small flatworms that are famous for being able to regrow whole bodies from small fragments—and discovered something ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new species of flatworm has been found invading the U.S., having ...

It’s the time of the year when hammerhead flatworms start making their way into the news cycle again, so here’s another story to add to the pile. Flatworms are predators that prey on soft-bodied ...

A tiny flatworm may help solve a big problem in medicine. Scientists found that particles from these worms can speed up skin ...

Four years ago, an alert worker at a plant nursery in Kinston saw a strange looking worm in some ornamental plants they had recently received from Georgia while they were being repotted. That ...

A newly discovered type of flatworm found in Italy and France has been dubbed “Humbertium covidum” after the global COVID-19 pandemic, scientists say. Pierre Gros Scientists who discovered two new ...

Planarian flatworms maintained under standard laboratory conditions (brown) are pictured with animals subjected to intense light exposure (partially or fully depigmented), along with a schematic ...

For years, land flatworms were thought to spread mostly through plant sales. Worms or their eggs would hitch a ride in potted soil, move through nurseries, and end up in new gardens. That explained ...