Spider courtship boasts some of the most charismatic and strategic rituals in the animal kingdom: bondage worthy of the bedroom, percussive performances worthy of the drumline, silent sounds worthy of tradecraft. Still, arachnologists ...
Plants & Animals
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Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of binary star system using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. These so-called spider systems each contain a pulsar—the superdense, ...
Astronomy
Jan 26, 2023
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Sea spiders can regrow body parts after amputation and not just limbs, according to a study released on Monday that may pave the way for further scientific research into regeneration.
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2023
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An article published in the Journal of Proteome Research by researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) and Butantan Institute in Brazil reports the findings of a study that characterized for the first time ...
Biochemistry
Jan 18, 2023
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New research reveals that the animals that perceive time the fastest are those that are small, can fly, or are marine predators.
Plants & Animals
Dec 20, 2022
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Spider scientists are an optimistic crowd. Perhaps it's just that we see things from a different angle to arachnophobes. If you don't believe me, look up Theridion grallator. Researchers from my field call this Hawaiian species ...
Evolution
Dec 16, 2022
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Birds do it. Bees do it. Even spiders in their webs do it: cooperate for more peaceful colonies.
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Nov 30, 2022
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In a tropical forest beside the Panama Canal, two black-handed spider monkeys swing about their wire enclosure, balanced by their long tails. They arrived at this government rehabilitation center after environmental authorities ...
Ecology
Nov 30, 2022
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A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Texas Tech University, Cornell University and Australian National University has found similar genes between species of spiders that have some degree of sociability. ...
For anyone with arachnophobia, the only thing worse than finding a lone spider dangling in a doorway or resting on your rear-view mirror is finding a whole cluster.
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