Globally, humanity now produces a staggering 450 million tonnes of plastic every year. From food and drink containers to ...

In today's edition of "who asked for this?," Variety reports that an Earthworm Jim TV series is in the works at Interplay Entertainment, the current owners of the franchise. Interplay released a ...

Imagine being in your garden and stumbling on an enormous earthworm that measures about as long as a standard bowling pin is tall, and that weighs about the same as a small chocolate bar. The ...

When Charles Darwin first proposed how evolution works in 1859, it seemed plausible. Tiny changes stack up over time, eventually leading a species to become something entirely different. Aside from ...

Earthworm activity modifies soil structure and promotes important hydrological ecosystem functions for agricultural systems. Earthworms use their flexible hydroskeleton to burrow and expand biopores.

Three more titles join the library of Nintendo Switch Online retro classics available to subscribers: Earthworm Jim, Dig Dug 2, and Mappy-Land. All three are available right now. Earthworm Jim 2, for ...

When Earthworm Jim first came out, I was about ten years old. Playing the game for the first time, I remember being incredibly unsettled by the oddness of the characters and the disjointed situations ...

The earthworm robot falls into the field of “soft robotics,” where engineers and developers design robots with soft and flexible bodies, usually comprised of silicone or rubber. “Soft robotics is a ...

Jim was just a dirt-eating length of worm-flesh, but then he became one of the world's weirdest superheroes. '90s kids likely remember Saturday mornings spent bouncing along to the ridiculously catchy ...

A snake and an earthworm may seem alike at a casual glance. Their bodies are long, slender and completely without limbs, ...

Robots that dig underground are getting lots of development attention thanks to DARPA, the Pentagon's research funding arm. The latest example? An earthworm from GE. The GE robot is part of DARPA's ...