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Science Oct 09

‘Fat Bear’ champ Grazer beats Chunk, the behemoth that killed her cub

By Mark Thiessen, Associated Press

Science Jul 01

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Ticks can use static electricity to land on you and your pets, study finds

Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows.

By Maddie Burakoff, Associated Press

Nation Dec 27

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Edward O. Wilson, biologist known as ‘ant man,’ dead at 92

Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who advanced the provocative theory that human behavior such as war and altruism has a genetic basis, has died. He was 92.

By Associated Press

Science Jul 25

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A brief but spectacular take on how animals and continents are interconnected

Although Prosanta Chakrabarty grew up in Queens, he always loved nature. The wonder of the world's creatures inspired him to study biology, a field that illuminates which of Earth’s beings are related to one another -- and how an event…

Science Apr 25

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Why humans may have more in common with chimps than we thought

What can humans learn about ourselves from studying chimpanzees? Primatologist Frans de Waal has spent almost three decades studying the behavior and intelligence of chimpanzees. Now, he’s focused on their emotional lives--and he’s found primates and people aren’t so different…

By Jeffrey Brown, Leah Nagy

Apr 06

Paul Rudd and the science behind youthful skin

By Nsikan Akpan

Why isn't Paul Rudd aging? For his 50th birthday, PBS NewsHour asked three dermatologists for tips on recreating the Paul Rudd effect.

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Mar 15

This new ‘army’ of spiders is named after Star Wars stormtroopers

By Vicky Stein

They wouldn’t survive the deserts of Tatooine or the frigid planet Hoth, but these newly described, tarantula-like spiders are named after the stormtroopers who marched through the “Star Wars” movies.

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Jul 05

Spiders fly on the currents of Earth’s electric field

By Amanda Grennell

Spiders don’t have wings, but they can fly across entire oceans on long strands of silk. For more than a century, scientists thought it was the wind that carried them, but a new study shows the Earth’s electric field can…

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Oct 04

2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to ‘cool’ 3D pictures of bioarchitecture

By Nsikan Akpan

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way to image biomolecules at cold temperatures.

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May 08

Can’t resist candy? You may have this mutation

By Nsikan Akpan

If you’re a candy lover or denier, you may want to blame one of your liver hormones, according to a new study.

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