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Do you like mealworms? If you don’t know what a mealworm is, it looks like a worm with legs, kind of like a centipede. Our fourth- and fifth-grade classmates did an experiment on them. We experimented ...

Undergraduates at the UT Austin Inventors Program are exploring how mealworms, and the microbes in their guts, can naturally degrade household plastics. Interior of a bin with polyethylene and ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Science experiments by U.S. middle-school students in Japan could have major implications in stemming the tide of a major source of seaborne pollution. Eight classmates from ...

Tiny mealworms may hold part of the solution to our giant plastics problem. Not only are they able to consume various forms of plastic, as previous Stanford research has shown, they can eat Styrofoam ...

BELGRADE :Serbian scientists have been experimenting with mealworms as a way to break down polystyrene. Larisa Ilijin, a principal research fellow at Belgrade’s Institute for Biology, said the ...