Leaf at first sight: How leaf-curling spiders pair up and build a family home
Have you recently spotted a spider peeking out from a brown, curled-up leaf in your garden?
Have you recently spotted a spider peeking out from a brown, curled-up leaf in your garden?
Plants & Animals
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Ocean acidification—which is mainly caused by carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere dissolving into the ocean—is a significant threat to the structure and function of marine life. In a study published in the New Phytologist, ...
Environment
Jan 6, 2022
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Monitoring progress on our way to successfully achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is key to their achievement, but there are significant data gaps that make this crucial exercise difficult. A new IIASA-led ...
Environment
Nov 29, 2021
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We tend to think Antarctica is isolated and far away—biologically speaking, this is true. But the continent is busier than you probably imagine, with many national programs and tourist operators crisscrossing the globe ...
Ecology
Nov 22, 2021
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Invasive species cause biodiversity loss and about $120 billion in annual damages in the U.S. alone. Despite plentiful evidence that invasive species can change food webs, how invaders disrupt food webs and native species ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 4, 2021
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A trio of researchers with Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, has found that male nursery web spiders may add chemicals to their silk to make their nuptial gifts more attractive to prospective female mates. In their ...
Johns Hopkins University researchers discovered precisely how spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence to track and record every movement of all eight legs as spiders worked in the dark.
Plants & Animals
Nov 1, 2021
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A large spider native to East Asia has spun its thick, golden web on power lines, porches and vegetable patches all over north Georgia this year—a proliferation that has driven some unnerved homeowners indoors and prompted ...
Ecology
Oct 29, 2021
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Astronomers at the University of Warwick have joined partners around the world in launching a new online initiative, calling for volunteers to come forward and help to search for extrasolar planets.
Astronomy
Oct 21, 2021
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Bluefin tuna, a long-lived migratory species that accumulates mercury as it ages, can be used as a global barometer of the heavy metal and the risk posed to ocean life and human health, according to a study by Rutgers and ...
Environment
Sep 13, 2021
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