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- Animals
A Spider’s Taste for Blood
Certain jumping spiders prey on mosquitoes that have drawn blood from animals.
By Emily Sohn - Earth
Detecting an eerie sea glow
At night, glowing bacteria can give large areas of the sea a surreal milky color.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Bee heat cooks invaders
Certain honeybees in Asia use their body heat to kill attacking wasps.
By Emily Sohn - Plants
Cactus goo for clean water
A cactus commonly found in Mexico can help clean up dirty water.
By Emily Sohn -
- Psychology
Pain expectations
How painful you expect something to be beforehand can affect how you actually feel when you're hurt.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
From Chimps to People
Although chimpanzees and people share many genes, there are key biological differences.
By Emily Sohn -
- Tech
Roboroach and company
Cockroaches and lobsters inspire robots that navigate in darkness and track smells.
By Sarah Webb - Animals
Who’s knocking?
Recordings of calls and drumming provide new evidence that the ivory-billed woodpecker survives.
By Emily Sohn - Animals
Walktopus
Some octopuses can walk, using two of their eight arms to scoot backward.
By Emily Sohn -