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- Silk: Mimicking how spiders make their complex array of silks could usher in a tapestry of new materials, and other animals or plants could be designed to be the producers
- Itch: Scientists trace a new path behind the maddening, unrelenting, screaming desire to scratch
- Half-life (more or less): Physicists are stirred by claims that the sun may change what’s unchangeable—the rate of radioactive decay
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Thanks to global warming, within the lifetimes of certain reptiles in the South Pacific, all members of their species could be born male. Click on the image for today's Science & The Public blog.
Credit: L.J. Guillette/ Univ. of Fla.
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