Whip spiders only look terrifying
Kenneth Chapin with a whip spider on his back, in a cave in Puerto Rico in 2012.
Credit: Courtesy of Kenneth Chapin
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Aggressive spiders are quick at making accurate decisions, better at hunting unpredictable preys
Associate Professor Li Daiqin (right) and Ms Chang Chia-chen (left) from the Department of Biological Sciences at NUS found that the personality of spiders...
Fighting pain through knowledge about sensory organs in the fingertips
Jianguo Gu, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has now unraveled how the sensory information is processed in the Merkel discs and...
Sensory illusion causes cells to self-destruct
Illustration of yeast cells (stock image). Even brainless single-celled yeast have sensory biases that can be hacked by a carefully engineered illusion, a finding...
Magic helps unmask how the brain works
University of Delaware researchers are using magic to look at how the brain processes multiple sensory inputs to perceive our bodies and the world...
Netflix drama ’13 Reasons Why’ linked to suicidal thoughts
There were between 900,000 and 1,500,000 more suicide related internet searches than expected during the 19 days following the release of the series "13...
Earth-like atmosphere may not survive Proxima b’s orbit
This artist's impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star...
Asteroids found to be the moon’s main ‘water supply’
This is the temperature of the surface around the southern pole of the moon according to LRO data.
Credit: NASA
Water reserves found on the moon...
Large, distant comets more common than previously thought
A new study suggests that distant "long-period" comets -- which take more than 200 years to orbit the sun -- are more common than...
How improved valves let grasses ‘breathe,’ cope with climate change
This image shows the four-celled stomata found in grasses, featuring two dumbbell-shaped guard cells surrounded by two subsidiary cells. Scientists attribute the tremendous success...
Warming climate pushes plants up the mountain
The researchers assessed plants growing at different elevations in the same areas surveyed by botanists 50 years ago.
Credit: Jeffrey Eble
Comparing plant communities today with...
