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January 11, 2017

Spiders Often Make Custom Built Webs In Order To Catch Their Favorite Meals

An international team of researchers has stumbled upon the bizarre way that orb weaver spiders build their webs to catch the live meals that they find most appetizing. In fact, it seems as though the OW spider is able to…

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January 9, 2017

Newly Discovered Ant-Like Bees Are Perplexing Entomologists

There have been quite a few recent news stories about the alarming rate at which the planets bee colonies are dying out. Luckily, there are a variety of different bee species on this planet, and not all of them have…

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January 6, 2017

How to Survive Camping With Mosquitos 101

Camping is a great way to enjoy the great outdoors with friends and family, letting modern humans get a little taste of living amongst nature and the perfect excuse to make smores. However, the drawback of going camping outside in…

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January 5, 2017

Zika Virus Proteins Linked to Neurological Problems and Birth Defects

It looks like scientists have begun to figure out exactly how the Zika virus causes serious neurological problems in adults and infants. Researchers found seven different proteins in the Zika virus that they’ve found to be main thing causing birth…

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January 4, 2017

Could Zika Become A Disaster In The United States?

A recent Zika outbreak in Brownsville, Texas has some experts concerned that a much larger Zika outbreak has yet to occur in the US. The Zika epidemic in Brazil has become so bad that many women are refusing to become…

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January 2, 2017

Eating Insects May Be Responsible for Our Larger Brains

The insect-eating trend is spreading across the globe steadily, but what if we’d always eaten insects? How would that change in diet have possibly affected our growth and evolution? According to experts we have been living off of a great…

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December 30, 2016

Bumblebees Find Flowers By Sensing Their Electric Fields

While most of us probably think that bees find flowers to pollinate by sensing their bright colors, shape, and unique scents. However, that’s not entirely true. Flowers give off electrical signals, which bees can actually sense, and it is these…

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December 28, 2016

First Ever Insect To Physically Possess A System Of Gears

An interesting garden insect moves with the help of a set of mechanical gears. That sentence may sound strange, but researchers believe that they have found the first ever insect to a physical constitution that operates in a fashion similar…

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December 27, 2016

Zika Virus Causes 6% of US Babies to Be Born With Birth Defects

A recent study revealed that a significant number of babies (6%) will or already have likely been born with birth defects caused by the Zika virus. This number includes women who don’t know that they have the virus, only to…

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December 26, 2016

Researchers Debate Over The Cause Of Gigantism In Polar Spiders

You may not have known about the spiders that thrive in arctic environments, but they do exist. Actually, the spider-like creatures that have been spotted in arctic waters are not spiders, rather they are classified as a type of arthropod…

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