Researchers discover that worms use electricity to jump

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Jun 21, 2023, 3:00 pm130 ptsTrending
In nature, smaller animals often attach themselves to larger ones to "hitch a ride" and save energy migrating large distances. In paper published on June 21 in the journal Current Biology, researchers show how microscopic Caenorhabditis elegans worms can use electric fields to "jump" across Petri plates or onto…

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