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May- 2018 -10 May
Citizen scientists discover a new water beetle and name it after Leonardo DiCaprio
FULL STORY The new species Grouvellinus leonardodicaprioi. Credit: Taxon Expeditions - Hendrik Freitag The new species Grouvellinus leonardodicaprioi. Credit: Taxon…
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10 May
Editing brain activity with holography
FULL STORY A sample hologram with 50 randomly distributed neuron targets spanning a region 500 microns square and 250 microns…
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Whale shark logs longest-recorded trans-Pacific migration
FULL STORY Whale sharks are filter feeders, eating plankton, fish eggs, krill, crab larvae as well as small squid and…
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Brown widow male spiders prefer sex with older females likely to eat them afterwards
FULL STORY Male brown widow spiders seek to mate with older, less-fertile females who are 50 percent more likely to…
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Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox observed in many-particle system for the first time
FULL STORY A cloud of atoms is held above a chip by electromagnetic fields. The EPR paradox was observed between…
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10 May
Why a robot can’t yet outjump a flea
FULL STORY The award for the fastest punch goes to mantis shrimp, which use their hammer-like appendages to smash open…
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Genetic roadmap to building an entire organism from a single cell
FULL STORY A zebrafish egg cell divides. Credit: Fengzhu Xiong and Sean Megason/Harvard Medical School A zebrafish egg cell divides.…
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Navigating with the sixth sense: Desert ants sense Earth’s magnetic field
FULL STORY Desert ants (Cataglyphis) at the nest entrance. Credit: Pauline Fleischmann Desert ants (Cataglyphis) at the nest entrance. Credit:…
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Transparent eel-like soft robot can swim silently underwater
FULL STORY Researchers tested the robot in tanks at the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC…
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10 May
Projectile cannon experiments show how asteroids can deliver water
FULL STORY Special delivery. Experiments using a high-powered projectile cannon suggest that asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water when…
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