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FYI: Why Don’t Spiders Get Trapped In Their Own Webs?
Science

FYI: Why Don’t Spiders Get Trapped In Their Own Webs?

By Daniel Engber

Genetic Researchers Grow A Fish That Has Legs
Environment

Genetic Researchers Grow A Fish That Has Legs

By Emily Elert

White Nose Syndrome In Bats Could Yield Clues About AIDS
Environment

White Nose Syndrome In Bats Could Yield Clues About AIDS

By Rebecca Boyle

Google Funds Secret Technology For Hunting Down Poachers
Environment

Google Funds Secret Technology For Hunting Down Poachers

By Rebecca Boyle

Daily Infographic: 9,993 Bird Species On One Tree (Now Zoomable!)
Science

Daily Infographic: 9,993 Bird Species On One Tree (Now Zoomable!)

By Emily Elert

Baby Birds Use Unique Passwords To Unlock Dinner
Environment

Baby Birds Use Unique Passwords To Unlock Dinner

By Rebecca Boyle

Daily Infographic: A Family Tree Of Every Bird On Earth
Science

Daily Infographic: A Family Tree Of Every Bird On Earth

By Rebecca Boyle

This Halloween, Celebrate The Beautiful Bat
Environment

This Halloween, Celebrate The Beautiful Bat

By Rebecca Boyle

13 Of The Year’s Most Stunning Wildlife Photos
Environment

13 Of The Year’s Most Stunning Wildlife Photos

By Colin Lecher

Bats Combine Work And Dating
Environment

Bats Combine Work And Dating

By Rebecca Boyle

How Bats Can Help Scientists Design Better Robots
Environment

How Bats Can Help Scientists Design Better Robots

By Rebecca Boyle

This Is What The Depression Sounded Like
Environment

This Is What The Depression Sounded Like

By Rebecca Boyle

Inside the World’s First Manmade Batcave Built For Wild Bats
Environment

Inside the World’s First Manmade Batcave Built For Wild Bats

By Rebecca Boyle

Giant Cave Spider Discovered in Oregon
Environment

Giant Cave Spider Discovered in Oregon

By Rebecca Boyle

Visualized: Worldwide Shark Attacks Since 2000
Environment

Visualized: Worldwide Shark Attacks Since 2000

By Emily Elert

Video: Ride On a Seabird’s Back as It Dives Toward the Ocean Floor
Environment

Video: Ride On a Seabird’s Back as It Dives Toward the Ocean Floor

By Rebecca Boyle

Speedo’s Super-Fast, Shark-Skin-Inspired Fastskin Swimsuit Is Actually Nothing Like a Shark’s Skin
Environment

Speedo’s Super-Fast, Shark-Skin-Inspired Fastskin Swimsuit Is Actually Nothing Like a Shark’s Skin

By Dan Nosowitz

Megapixels: A Shark Eats a Shark
Environment

Megapixels: A Shark Eats a Shark

By Emily Elert

How Crows Recognize Individual Humans, Warn Others, and Are Basically Smarter Than You
Environment

How Crows Recognize Individual Humans, Warn Others, and Are Basically Smarter Than You

By John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell

A New Way to Keep Deep-Sea Creatures Alive at the Surface
Environment

A New Way to Keep Deep-Sea Creatures Alive at the Surface

By Stephanie Warren

Video: Paratrooping Roomba-Style Drone Concept Could Help Clean Oil Spills
Technology

Video: Paratrooping Roomba-Style Drone Concept Could Help Clean Oil Spills

By Colin Lecher

Neurons in Bird Brains Encode Earth’s Magnetic Field, Giving Pigeons Reliable Internal GPS
Environment

Neurons in Bird Brains Encode Earth’s Magnetic Field, Giving Pigeons Reliable Internal GPS

By Rebecca Boyle

Too Much Monkey Business Leads to Monkey Vasectomies
Environment

Too Much Monkey Business Leads to Monkey Vasectomies

By Rose Pastore

Birds Might Have a Built-In Head-Up Display Overlaying Navigation Data Onto Their Vision
Science

Birds Might Have a Built-In Head-Up Display Overlaying Navigation Data Onto Their Vision

By Clay Dillow

Japanese Researcher Crafts Violin Strings From the Silk of Three Hundred Spiders
Science

Japanese Researcher Crafts Violin Strings From the Silk of Three Hundred Spiders

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet
Health

Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet

By Clay Dillow

The Northernmost Dish In The World: Tracking Satellites and Dodging Polar Bears
Technology

The Northernmost Dish In The World: Tracking Satellites and Dodging Polar Bears

By Ryan Bradley

Male Wolf Spiders Swipe Other Males’ Dance Moves
Environment

Male Wolf Spiders Swipe Other Males’ Dance Moves

By Dan Nosowitz

PopSci BatSci: Biologists Use Old Weather Data to Track Bat Signals
Environment

PopSci BatSci: Biologists Use Old Weather Data to Track Bat Signals

By Rebecca Boyle

A Nuclear Plant’s Cooling Canals Help Save Endangered Florida Crocodiles
Environment

A Nuclear Plant’s Cooling Canals Help Save Endangered Florida Crocodiles

By Rebecca Boyle

Albino Robot Spider Clambers Through Dangerous Spots on 8 Legs
Technology

Albino Robot Spider Clambers Through Dangerous Spots on 8 Legs

By Rebecca Boyle

Nearly All Vertebrates, Including Us, Descended From a Creature With An Electromagnetic Sixth Sense
Science

Nearly All Vertebrates, Including Us, Descended From a Creature With An Electromagnetic Sixth Sense

By Rebecca Boyle

Did an Ancient Kraken Create Its Own Friends? What About a Modern Jellyfish?
Environment

Did an Ancient Kraken Create Its Own Friends? What About a Modern Jellyfish?

By Rebecca Boyle

Bats Have Unique Superfast Squeak Muscles to Make Superfast Echolocation Calls
Environment

Bats Have Unique Superfast Squeak Muscles to Make Superfast Echolocation Calls

By Rebecca Boyle

Approved for Use: the First Birth Control for Wildlife
Environment

Approved for Use: the First Birth Control for Wildlife

By Katharine Gammon

Scientists Who Cloned Dolly the Sheep Plan to Clone Endangered Scottish Wildcats Using Eggs From Spayed Pets
Environment

Scientists Who Cloned Dolly the Sheep Plan to Clone Endangered Scottish Wildcats Using Eggs From Spayed Pets

By Rebecca Boyle

Spiders Fleeing Pakistan’s Floodwater Take to the Trees
Environment

Spiders Fleeing Pakistan’s Floodwater Take to the Trees

By Jennie Walters

The Top 10 New Species of 2011
Environment

The Top 10 New Species of 2011

By Rebecca Boyle

How Darpa’s Tiny Robotic Hummingbird Hovers and Films
Technology

How Darpa’s Tiny Robotic Hummingbird Hovers and Films

By Joshua Saul

Bats Out of Hell: Rescue Efforts for Some of the Smallest Victims of Australia’s Floods
Environment

Bats Out of Hell: Rescue Efforts for Some of the Smallest Victims of Australia’s Floods

By Caitlin Kearney

Zebra wild nature safari stripes science
Environment

New Scanner Tracks Zebras’ Built-In Bar Codes

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Seagull Robot Takes Off And Flies On Its Own, Just Like the Real Thing
Technology

Video: Seagull Robot Takes Off And Flies On Its Own, Just Like the Real Thing

By Rebecca Boyle

Woodpeckers’ Heads Inspire New Shock-Absorbing Systems for Electronics and Humans
Environment

Woodpeckers’ Heads Inspire New Shock-Absorbing Systems for Electronics and Humans

By Rebecca Boyle

Bat Ears Could Inspire New Sensing Technology For Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
Technology

Bat Ears Could Inspire New Sensing Technology For Robots and Autonomous Vehicles

By Rebecca Boyle

What Cataclysm Killed the Birds in Arkansas (and Louisiana, and Sweden)? Maybe None
Environment

What Cataclysm Killed the Birds in Arkansas (and Louisiana, and Sweden)? Maybe None

By Clay Dillow

Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further Puzzle Investigators
Environment

Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further Puzzle Investigators

By Clay Dillow

Is Your Dinner Endangered? DNA Detectives Investigate
Environment

Is Your Dinner Endangered? DNA Detectives Investigate

By Laura Allen

Bat Research Inspires Disciplines Far Beyond Biology
Environment

Bat Research Inspires Disciplines Far Beyond Biology

By Rebecca Boyle

Increasing Wind Turbine Turn-On Speeds Could Help Reduce Bat Deaths, New Study Says
Environment

Increasing Wind Turbine Turn-On Speeds Could Help Reduce Bat Deaths, New Study Says

By Rebecca Boyle

Can Technology Help Biologists Save Bats from Extinction?
Environment

Can Technology Help Biologists Save Bats from Extinction?

By Rebecca Boyle

Bat Conference, Day 1: Students Rush To Front Lines In Battle to Save Bats
Environment

Bat Conference, Day 1: Students Rush To Front Lines In Battle to Save Bats

By Rebecca Boyle

Humpback Whale Makes The Longest Documented Mammal Journey With a 6,200-Mile Swim
Environment

Humpback Whale Makes The Longest Documented Mammal Journey With a 6,200-Mile Swim

By Dan Nosowitz

First Complete Census of Marine Life Catalogs Yeti Crab, Darth Vader Jelly, and 6,000 More
Science

First Complete Census of Marine Life Catalogs Yeti Crab, Darth Vader Jelly, and 6,000 More

By Dan Nosowitz

This Week, FDA Considers Genetically Engineered Salmon for Human Consumption
Environment

This Week, FDA Considers Genetically Engineered Salmon for Human Consumption

By Rebecca Boyle

Great White Sharks Text Their Whereabouts, For Science and Swimmer Safety
Environment

Great White Sharks Text Their Whereabouts, For Science and Swimmer Safety

By Justin McLachlan

Birds May Use Quantum Mechanics To Migrate South
Science

Birds May Use Quantum Mechanics To Migrate South

By Denise Ngo

Transgenic Musclebound Trout with Six-Pack Abs Could Arrive Soon on Your Dinner Plate
Science

Transgenic Musclebound Trout with Six-Pack Abs Could Arrive Soon on Your Dinner Plate

By Jeremy Hsu

Can a Whale Get Rabies?
Science

Can a Whale Get Rabies?

By Bjorn Carey

German Zoo’s Bears Struck With Mystery Baldness
Environment

German Zoo’s Bears Struck With Mystery Baldness

By Stuart Fox

Something in the Water Is Feminizing Male Fish. Are We Next?
Environment

Something in the Water Is Feminizing Male Fish. Are We Next?

By Eric Hagerman

Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)
Science

Baguette Dropped From Bird’s Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)

By Stuart Fox

A Material Based on Sharkskin Stops Bacterial Breakouts
Environment

A Material Based on Sharkskin Stops Bacterial Breakouts

By Arnie Cooper

Giant Free-Roving Robotic Cages Could Be the Healthy Future of Fish Farming
Technology

Giant Free-Roving Robotic Cages Could Be the Healthy Future of Fish Farming

By Stuart Fox

An Artificial Uterus Gives an Endangered Species a Shot at Survival
Environment

An Artificial Uterus Gives an Endangered Species a Shot at Survival

By Corey Binns

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