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10 Weird Space Experiments—You Won’t Believe What NASA’s Tried Out There
From brewing whiskey to mixing perfume, turns out there’s a whole lot more to space travel than you thought. Discover the incredible experiments going on in outer space. 10. Jelly Fish in Space In...
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New Arthropod Fossil Might be Relative of Spiders, Scorpions (Video)
Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new arthropod. Yawunik kootenayi was swimming around oceans in Canada in the Cambrian period, 508 million years ago. It’s thought to share a...
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They Couldn’t Believe What Was Covering the Ground When They Went Outside
Some Australians could not believe what was covering the ground when they went outside one recent morning. (Keith Basterfield) The worst kind of “rain” imaginable had dropped tens of thousands of...
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Scientists Crack Code for Making Spider Silk
Like many wonders of nature, spider silk has remarkable properties that makes it outshine its manmade counterparts to this very day: spider thread has the same tensile strength — the amount of...
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Strange Storms—Frogs, Spiders and Fish
Throughout history many have witnessed showers of animals falling from the sky. This rain of spiders in Argentina was captured on film earlier this year. (Christian Oneto Gaona) In the emotionally...
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Spiders, Not Defects, Prompt Mazda to Recall Vehicles
File photo of the 2009 Mazda 6 sedan. Japanese automaker Mazda is recalling 52,000 of its 2009-2010 mid-sized sedan Mazda6 models, not because of a defect with manufacturing, but due to spiders....
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SCIENCE IN PICS: Cave Robber Spider
A male Trogloraptor photographed in the lab. (Griswold CE, Audisio T, Ledford JM) A new spider species and arachnid family has been discovered in coastal forests of western North America. Known as...
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Tiny Rainforest Spiders Build Giant Decoys
This might look like a spider, but it was actually built by one. (Phil Torres) Miniature spiders have been discovered in Peru that create large fake spiders in their webs. Biologist Phil Torres spotted...
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Could Spiderman’s Web Really Stop a Runaway Train?
An actor dressed as Spiderman poses for a photo. (Jordan Mansfield/Getty Images) When Spiderman used his web to halt a R160 New York City subway train before it plunged off the tracks, the results were...
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Insecticide Changes Helpful Spider’s ‘Personality’
Insecticides that are sprayed in orchards and fields across North America may be more toxic to spiders than scientists previously believed. For a new study, researchers looked at changes in the...
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10 Weird Space Experiments—You Won’t Believe What NASA’s Tried Out There
From brewing whiskey to mixing perfume, turns out there’s a whole lot more to space travel than you thought. Discover the incredible experiments going on in outer space. 10. Jelly Fish in Space In...
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New Arthropod Fossil Might be Relative of Spiders, Scorpions (Video)
Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new arthropod. Yawunik kootenayi was swimming around oceans in Canada in the Cambrian period, 508 million years ago. It’s thought to share a...
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Scientists Crack Code for Making Spider Silk
Like many wonders of nature, spider silk has remarkable properties that makes it outshine its manmade counterparts to this very day: spider thread has the same tensile strength — the amount of...
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Insecticide Changes Helpful Spider’s ‘Personality’
Insecticides that are sprayed in orchards and fields across North America may be more toxic to spiders than scientists previously believed. For a new study, researchers looked at changes in the...
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UK Woman Discovers World’s Most Venomous Spider in a Banana
A U.K. woman bought a bunch of bananas from a Tesco supermarket in West Yorkshire recently, but she didn’t expect the fruit to include one of the most deadly spiders on Earth. Laura Horsfield, 31, said...
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