On Aug. 7, 1994, the quaint town of Oakville, Washington, with a population of just a few hundred, experienced some odd weather. Rain with a chance of disease-inducing blobs of goo hammered down.
Worms that create intricate, tangled blobs with their bodies can disentangle in milliseconds when threatened. This speedy unscrambling is possible because each worm wriggles in a special corkscrew ...