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Spider eat spider: Scientists discover 18 new spider-hunting pelican spiders in Madagascar
In 1854, a curious-looking spider was found preserved in 50 million-year-old amber. With an elongated neck-like structure and long mouthparts that protruded from the...
GBT detection unlocks exploration of ‘aromatic’ interstellar chemistry
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope have made the first definitive interstellar detection of benzonitrile, an intriguing organic molecule that helps to chemically link...
Surprise: A virus-like protein is important for cognition and memory
A protein involved in cognition and storing long-term memories looks and acts like a protein from viruses. The protein, called Arc, has properties similar...
With these special bacteria, a broccoli a day can keep the cancer doctor away
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world, especially the developed world. Although the 5-year survival rates for earlier stages...
Making the Internet of Things possible with a new breed of ‘memristors’
The internet of things is coming, that much we know. But still it won't; not until we have components and chips that can handle...
3-D printing creates super soft structures that replicate brain and lungs
A new 3D printing technique allows researchers to replicate biological structures, which could be used for tissue regeneration and replica organs.
Imperial College London researchers...
The ecological costs of war: Conflict a consistent killer of African megafauna
When Joshua Daskin traveled to Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park in 2012, the park and the iconic large animals that roamed it were returning from...
In ‘pond scum,’ scientists find answers to one of evolution’s which-came-first cases
Visiting a colleague in Germany in 2012, Boston College Research Professor Paul K. Strother was examining soil samples for pollen, spores, pieces of plants...
Heart-muscle patches made with human cells improve heart attack recovery
Large, human cardiac-muscle patches created in the lab have been tested, for the first time, on large animals in a heart attack model. This...
Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth
Two wayward space rocks, which separately crashed to Earth in 1998 after circulating in our solar system's asteroid belt for billions of years, share...
Astronomers detect ‘whirlpool’ movement in earliest galaxies
Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to...
