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Swimming Penguins Guide Autonomous Underwater Robots
Autonomous robots that follow the routes of swimming penguins are collecting information that could help scientists understand why the birds’ populations are dropping rapidly. The underwater robots,...
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Lasers Help Map Hard-to-Reach Spider Habitat
Airborne lasers can help scientists better monitor spiders by mapping crucial, hard-to-reach habitats. Researchers created 3-D maps of prime spider habitats in a German national park using LiDAR, a...
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Sneaky Orchids Fake Infection to Fool Flies
An endangered slipper orchid in southwestern China fakes the look and smell of a fungal infection in order to attract one particular pollinator, the flat-footed fly. Black-brown spots mark the leaves...
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Video Roulette Perceived as Riskier Than Real
People may be less willing to take risks on activities depicted online through video feeds than they are in person, even when the activity is the same. In a study of people playing roulette,...
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Australian Fur Seals Are Losing Their Fur
Young Australian fur seals are losing the thick coats that keep them warm in chilly waters. The condition disproportionately affects 1-to-3-year-old females on Lady Julia Percy Island near Tasmania,...
View ArticleBooby Cams Capture Young Seabird Social Lives
Miniature video cameras strapped to the backs of young brown boobies allow researchers to watch how they learn from other seabirds. The video cameras captured footage of them chasing other juveniles...
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How 50-Mile-High Jets of Lightning Shoot Toward Space
Gigantic jets of lightning that shoot upward toward space can tower 50 miles above the Earth’s surface. Until now, we knew very little about the conditions that set them off or how they form. Close...
View ArticleSpider Attack: Clever, Scary Arachnid Hunting Strategies
SEE ALSO: The Spider Awards: Wired.com’s Arachnid Hall of Fame 1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth Millions of Spiders in Pakistan Encase Entire Trees in Webs Biggest Spider Fossil Ever...
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Emperor Penguins Rotate Through Giant Huddle for Warmth
Massive huddles of male Emperor penguins are crucial to keep them warm during Antarctica's brutal winter while they incubate their eggs. The trick with these groups is to get the packing just right. If...
View ArticleThe Weird and Beautiful World of Fluid Dynamics
Fluids and gases can move in strange and mysterious ways that aren’t always apparent to our unaided eyes. It's only with the use of tracers or dyes, photographic techniques and a bit of luck, that we...
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