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Life
Wasp has built-in Facebook
An insect species with a tricky social life has a special facility for telling one bug's mug from another.
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Life
Life
Ancient weirdos roamed the seas longer than thought, plus clever turtle embryos and da Vinci patterns in trees in this week’s news.
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Life
Life
Flowery advertising, tempting toilets for shrews, bat beacons and more in this week’s news.
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Book Review: Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid by Wendy Williams
Review by Daniel Strain.
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Earth
Defying Depth
How deep-sea creatures, and close relatives, survive tons of water weight.
By Susan Gaidos -
Life
Marine microbes fritter away jelly bonus
Bacterial feasts during jellyfish blooms drain valuable carbon out of the food web.
By Susan Milius -
Life
Dinosaur-era feathers sealed in amber
The richest collection yet of primordial plumage preserves pigment and fine details found modern birds.
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Paleontology
An ammonite’s last supper
A detailed X-ray image of a fossil reveals an ancient marine creature’s diet.
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Humans
AAAS board defends climate scientists
“AAAS vigorously opposes attacks on researchers that question their personal and professional integrity or threaten their safety based on displeasure with their scientific conclusions.” This declaration was contained in a 400-word denunciation of attacks on climate scientists and the politicization of climate science that was issued June 29 by the organization's board of directors.
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Life
Moonless twilight may cue mass spawning
Subtle color shifts on the nights just after the full moon might synchronize the release of gametes by corals and other marine creatures.
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Life
Packing away the poison
A genetic adaptation in a Hudson River fish species allows it to simply store toxic pollutants in its fat.
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Life
Flower sharing may be unsafe for bees
Wild pollinators are catching domesticated honeybee viruses, possibly by touching the same pollen.
By Susan Milius