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  1. Life

    An African monkey ate a rope squirrel and came down with mpox

    Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty mangabeys in Côte d’Ivoire.

    By Erin Garcia de Jesús
  2. Animals

    Intricate silk helps net-casting spiders ensnare prey in webs

    Rufous net-casting spiders can tune the stiffness and elasticity of their webs thanks to loops of silk, scanning electron microscope images reveal.

    By Emily Conover
  3. Health & Medicine

    A lab on wheels is tracking HIV spread in war-torn Ukraine

    During a test drive, the mobile lab van uncovered a drug-resistant HIV strain that sprung up after the ongoing war with Russia started.