Surviving a global disaster would take more than luck. It will require serious adaptability, resilience, and a little ...

This mission marks the first time that space regeneration experiments with flatworms will be conducted in mainland China, opening new avenues for understanding biological processes in space. Flatworms ...

As the Shenzhou-20 manned spacecraft and the Long March-2F Y20 carrier rocket stand ready at the launch site on ...

Scientists at the National Cancer Institute and partnering institutions have discovered that Schmidtea polychroa, a flatworm ...

As China's first space experiment involving planarians, the Shenzhou-20 mission will study the effects of space on planarian regeneration using head, middle and tail segments, with potential ...

An unusual creature with a distinctive head shape might be lurking in your garden, prompting curiosity and perhaps a bit of unease. Hammerhead worms, named for their spade-like or half-moon-shaped ...

SPECIMENS of Planaria albissima, Vejd., a Triclad Turbellarian not hitherto known to occur in Britain, have been collected in the environs of Aberystwyth, Wales. My preliminary identification was ...

"This year's launch of Shenzhou spacecraft will carry dozens of planarian segments into space," Zhang said. Planarias are flatworms with amazing regeneration abilities. There are many different ...

Eventually, 11 flatworms, less than an inch long, were collected and brought back to the laboratory environment to be studied. Then researchers learned the worms belonged to a species new to science.