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Scientists have discovered some of the most stretchable spider silk ever, which can elongate up to 7.5 times its initial length. European cave spiders produce the silk to build egg sacs that protect their developing young. Spider silk is a remarkable mat... 0 Published 6 days ago in
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By Mark Brown, Wired UK The Philippine tarsier is a tiny primate with a seriously high voice. The saucer-eyed mammal can let out (and listen to) squeaks and squeals at such a high frequency that it effectively gives the mammal a private communication cha... 0 Published 6 days ago in
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Fossils of A. musicus wings and illustrations of its wing ridges. Images: Gu et al./PNAS A cricket song last heard 165 million years ago has been played again. To reconstruct the sound, paleontologists compared microscopic wing structures of fossil Archab... 0 Published 8 days ago in
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Update: Russian news agency Ria Novosti has reported that the team penetrated Lake Vostok on Feb. 5, 2012. According to the report, the researchers stopped drilling at a depth of 3,768 meters as they reached the surface of the sub-glacial lake. After 20 ... 0 Published 8 days ago in
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Stiff muscles definitely benefit from a rub down, but scientists have never quite known why. Now, a team of researchers has shown that it works by changing your gene expression — quite literally, you... 0 Published 8 days ago in
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A controversial proposal would regulate sugar as a toxic substance, and not simply because it’s a calorie-rich enabler of obesity. Some researchers say it’s intrinsically dangerous, not unlike alcohol or tobacco, with unique properties that s... 0 Published 10 days ago in
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By Mark Brown, Wired UK After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years. Vostok is the largest in a sub-glacial web... 0 Published 12 days ago in
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Photo: Gnissah/Wikimedia Spider silk is well known for some spectacular properties. It is stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar yet flexible enough to be spun into a wide variety of shapes. New research shows that the material is not only strong bu... 0 Published 13 days ago in
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Spending long periods at low gravity may alter genes, suggests a new experiment involving a magnet-powered trick used on Earth to simulate weightlessness in space. Subjected to magnetic levitation that generated a gravitational effect similar to that exp... 0 Published 13 days ago in
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If you've ever wondered how quickly evolution works, well, now you have an answer: slowly. Very. Slowly. In fact it takes at least 24 million generations for a mouse-sized animal to evolve to the size of a... 0 Published 14 days ago in
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If you’ve ever wondered whether mammalian evolution has a speed limit, here’s a number for you: 24 million. That’s how many generations a new study estimates it would take to go from mouse- to elephant-sized while operating on land at t... 0 Published 15 days ago in
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By Elsa Youngsteadt, ScienceNOW With their keen vision and deadly-accurate pounce, jumping spiders are the cats of the invertebrate world. For decades, scientists have puzzled over how the spiders’ miniature nervous systems manage such sophistica... 0 Published 19 days ago in
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*Restrictions may apply. Someone get me my whiskey-drinking cap, I'm gonna live forever! Wait, whaddya mean it only works for worms?!?! More » 0 Published 24 days ago in
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Researchers developing extra-contagious strains of H5N1 avian influenza have agreed to pause their work for 60 days. The moratorium, announced Jan. 20 in Nature and Science, is a response to public fear and alarm in the scientific community, which has sp... 0 Published 25 days ago in
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An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days. Under artificial pressure to become larger, single-celled yeast became multicellular creatures. That crucial step is r... 0 Published 28 days ago in
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Harp seals use sea ice as their chilly love nests, and after the lovin' leads to babies, parents nurse for just 12 days before the pups are on their own. But their ice dens have been melting beneath the ba... 0 Published 31 days ago in
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By Mark Brown, Wired UK We’ve all seen concentrated solar power (CSP) plants — those rows and rows of shiny mirror heliostats all crowded around a 100-metre-high pillar, like worshippers peering up at a towering god. The orchestra of mirrors... 0 Published 33 days ago in
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A giant tortoise species presumed extinct for more than 150 years is actually roaming the Galápagos islands today according to DNA evidence, scientists report. More » ... 0 Published 36 days ago in
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A mere handful of seafloor mud may contain as many species as are found in a square meter of tropical rainforest. The fantastic assemblage seen above was gathered from a single scoop of mud, about 2 inches deep and 5 inches across. “It’s easy... 0 Published 39 days ago in
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By Mark Brown, Wired UK A team of biologists has discovered that male spiders spy on their rivals during courtship ceremonies, so they can mimic and pinch their most successful dance moves. The researchers put male ... 0 Published 40 days ago in
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Yippee! Let's poison ourselves with beverages that will make us violently ill! It was your battle cry last night, and today you're paying the price. But what is that hangover you're experiencing, exactly? ... 0 Published 44 days ago in
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Scorpion bodies are studded with eyes, sometimes as many as twelve — and scientists may have found one more. A scorpion’s entire exoskeleton may act as one giant light receptor, a full-body proto-eye that detects shadows cast by moonlight and... 0 Published 46 days ago in
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A new technique for color-coding nerves involved in touch gives neuroscientists a much-needed tool for studying that mysterious sense. For nearly 250 years, the intricate detail and complexity of skin’s nervous-system wiring has thwarted attempts a... 0 Published 47 days ago in
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New research suggests that fossils thought to represent some of the earliest multicellular life are instead single-celled, amoeba-like organisms. But even if they’re not quite full-blown animals, they may hint at how animals came into being. The 57... 0 Published 54 days ago in
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Do you prefer to run in packs or operate as a loner? Your answer is determined by your genes, a new study claims. It's a big shift in social behavior theory, since scientists previously thought the environ... 0 Published 55 days ago in
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Hunting spiders can not only watch your every move, but they can feel those moves, and that of their prey, through the air. How their tiny specialized hairs do it has puzzled researchers for decades, but one team of scientists may have found a break.... 0 Published 62 days ago in
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A recently discovered South American cockroach leaps through the air like a missile, traversing nearly 50 times its body length with every hop. Called a leaproach, the insect only infrequently scuttles like a regular roach. The rest of the time it uses... 0 Published 69 days ago in
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Physicists have found the strongest evidence yet of quantum effects fueling photosynthesis. Multiple experiments in recent years have suggested as much, but it’s been hard to be sure. Quantum effects were clearly present in the light-harvesting ant... 0 Published 70 days ago in
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By Mark Brown, Wired UK A thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a yeti crab “farms” a colony of bacteria on its claws. To help them grow, it waves its pincers over methane and sulfide vents, fertilizing the bacteria and making... 0 Published 71 days ago in
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By Olivia Solon, Wired UK Murray River turtles communicate with their siblings while they are still in their shells, buried under the soil, in order to coordinate when they hatch. Achieving this synchronicity isn&#... 0 Published 74 days ago in
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By Olivia Solon, Wired UK In a scientific first that could help us better understand how signals travel in the brain, a researcher of natural sciences at Harvard has created neurons that light up as they fire. De... 0 Published 75 days ago in
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By John Timmer, Ars Technica In 2006, scientists announced a provocative finding: a retrovirus called XMRV, closely related to a known virus from mice, was associated with cases of prostate cancer. But other labs, using different sets of patients, fou... 0 Published 76 days ago in
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A tasty spider and its bundle of prey might make an excellent treat for a bunch of marauding ants. So to protect their homes, and themselves, golden orb weavers (Nephila antipodiana) use chemical warfare. Researchers had long wondered how this species of... 0 Published 83 days ago in
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Doesn't this amazing sea sponge look like an Eames molded plastic chairs? We can't say for sure it was the design duo's inspiration, but we do know that until it was recently rediscovered, scientists thou... 0 Published 89 days ago in
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By Kim Krieger, ScienceNOW The graceful taper of a tree trunk into branches, boughs, and twigs is so familiar that few people notice what Leonardo da Vinci observed: A tree almost always grows so that the total thickness of the branches at a particula... 0 Published 91 days ago in
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Squids and octopi are mesmerizing creatures when you can get a look at them. But that's not so easy thanks to their magical invisibility and camouflage powers. More » ... 0 Published 94 days ago in
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By Elizabeth Pennisi, ScienceNOW Look around and it’s impossible to miss the importance of social interactions to human society. They form the basis of our families, our governments, and even our global economy. But how did we become social in ... 0 Published 97 days ago in
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Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature’s most extraordinary sights: Just a few hundred birds moving as one is enough to convey a sens... 0 Published 98 days ago in
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Sperm whales, Earth’s biggest-brained animals, live in far-flung clans with lifestyles so different and vocalizations so complex that it’s natural to think they have culture. But is that really true? Might sperm whales simply be following gen... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Research into longevity, that most fundamental and intractable of all human health challenges, is slow-moving. It deserves to be described in terms of years, not individual studies. But once in a rare while, a finding has the potential to be a landmark. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Researchers have discovered an underworld of genetic exchange among bacteria, one more vast than previously imagined. A comparison of thousands of bacterial genomes from around the world found genes flowing easily between species separated by hundreds, e... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Much time has been spent, over the past century, on working out exactly what it is about the sound of fingernails on a blackboard that’s so unpleasant. A new study pins the blame on psychology and the design of our ear ca... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Have you ever heard of an endocycle? Endocycles are happening all around you! They're one way that biological cells grow, and they generate more than half the earth's biomass. But how exactly endocycles w... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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