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Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity
Scientists are finally starting to understand the centuries-old mystery of “ballooning.”
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The Electric Flight of Spiders
Scientists are finally starting to understand the centuries-old mystery of “ballooning.”
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Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline
A Harvard professor says his company should be able to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, at industrial scales, by 2021.
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Why Whales Got So Big
It’s often said that the ocean releases them from the constraints of life on land. It’s actually the opposite.
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A Twist in Our Sexual Encounters With Other Ancient Humans
A new study suggests that early humans mated with the mysterious Denisovans in two separate waves.
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Elephants Are Very Scared of Bees. That Could Save Their Lives.
Researchers have compared the reactions of elephants in Africa and Asia to bee swarms, in efforts at protecting the endangered animals from angered farmers or poachers.
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You May Already Be Immune to CRISPR
The human immune system can hinder the gene-editing tool, though there could be ways around it
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The Greatest Leap, Part 3: The triumph and near-tragedy of the first Moon landing
Across the cislunar blackness, we set sail for a landing that almost didn't happen.
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Shy Elk and Bold Birds Become Partners in the Wilderness
Magpies will eat ticks that drain the blood from elks, but a scientist found it takes the right mix of elk-magpie personality for the relationship to work.
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Insects Are In Serious Trouble
In western Germany, populations of flying insects have fallen by around 80 percent in the last three decades.
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Antikythera shipwreck yields bronze arm – and hints at spectacular haul of statues
Arm points to existence of at least seven statues from Greek shipwreck, already the source of most extensive and exciting ancient cargo ever found
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Cats are an extreme outlier among domestic animals
Massive study of ancient and modern cat genomes reveals an unusual history.
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Welcome to the Future Range of the Woolly Mammoth
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with extinct creatures.
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The Man in the Zebra Suit Knows the Secret of the Stripes
Tim Caro has spent 20 years trying to figure out why zebras have stripes. And he finally has an answer.
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‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found - NYTimes.com
The medieval ship lay more than a half-mile down at the bottom of the Black Sea, its masts, timbers and planking undisturbed in the darkness for seven or eight…
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Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World
The president in conversation with MIT's Joi Ito and WIRED editor-in-chief Scott Dadich.
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The Audacious Plan to Save This Man’s Life by Transplanting His Head
What would happen if it actually works?
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First new antibiotic in 30 years discovered in major breakthrough
The first new antibiotic to be discovered in nearly 30 years has been hailed as a ‘
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What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists – Sabine Hossenfelder | Aeon Ideas
It began after I started as a teaching assistant at the department of physics. The first note was a classic – it proved Albert Einstein wrong. The second one solved the problem of quantum mechanics by dividing several equations through zero, a fea...
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The Audacious Plan to Save This Man’s Life by Transplanting His Head
What would happen if it actually works?
