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Why it's awesome: With their shimmering golden coats, these worms almost look glamorous — until you see their horrifying jaws, which resemble the mouth of the xenomorph from "Alien." The worms ...

This centimeter-scale, soft-bodied robot could be used in environmental monitoring, aquaculture, and maybe even for exploring alien worlds ... that moves like a worm. The study was published ...