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Spiders fly hundreads of miles on earth’s electric field
Every day, around 40,000 thunderstorms crackle around the world, collectively turning Earth’s atmosphere into a giant electrical circuit. The upper reaches of the atmosphere have a positive charge, and the planet’s surface has a negative one… Ballooning spiders operate within… Continue reading
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Sometimes It Pays to Be a Weakling | Science/AAAS | News
Sometimes it’s better not to be the best. Take rams. Those with bigger horns get the girl more often—but they also die younger… The tradeoff helps explain a long-standing puzzle about why the best genes for mating don’t take over…… Continue reading
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Looking for “Adams” and “Eves”
Hundreds of thousands of years ago—when people still lived in small hunter-gatherer bands, when it’s not even clear they were totally anatomically modern (though they probably were)—something happened in the human genome. Somewhere in Africa, a man carried a Y… Continue reading
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