130-MPH Spring-Loaded Jaws Help These Ants Escape Predators

TRAP-JAW ANTS HAVE an astounding weapon: their mouth. Their spring-stacked jaws are equipped for snapping close as quick as 60 meters/second (134 miles/hr) and can create strengths more than 300 times their body weight. These ants are brutal predators of termites and other little creepy crawlies with...

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Here’s How Burners Can Prepare for the Bugpocalypse

ON WEDNESDAY, SAN Francisco's schadenfreude meter went off the scale when the coordinators of Burning Man affirmed that their site—a desert patch outside of Gerlach, Nevada that they call Black Rock City—is being overwhelmed by bugs. The pictures out of the playa look scriptural, with misty layers...

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Millipede Genitals, Now in Glorious 3-D!

img alt="The Visible Millipede: IT'S BLUE, ITS name is "symbol," and it's virtual. In any case, it's not a 10-foot-tall humanoid outsider; it's another millipede species, and the first to be a "cybertype." Ommatoiulus symbol is the first species to be portrayed utilizing high-determination X-beam microtomography...

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Glowing Tampons Help Detect Sewage Leaks

"YOU DO GET individuals taking a gander at you peculiarly, however the tampon is not that self-evident." That is Professor David Lerner, clarifying what it was similar to direct an examination venture where ladylike cleanliness items were embedded into streams and sewers around Yorkshire, UK. Why?...

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Congress, Don’t Make Us Hitch Rides With Russia. Love, NASA

SATURDAY WILL MARK 1,500 days since the Space Shuttle touched down for the last time. Establishing human spaceflights was constantly expected to be transitory as we made the essential move to another era of rocket, worked by American business bearers. In like manner, paying for seats on Russian rocket...

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California’s Katrina Is Coming

CALIFORNIA'S ALWAYS BEEN for visionaries. Longs for gold brought the forty-niners. Simple seasons and sweeping arable real esatate brought ranchers, longing for a horticultural heaven. Popularity, common magnificence, and the hang-free social mosaic have conveyed envisioning millions to the state where...

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