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White paint might be causing a lot of Type 2 diabetes, preliminary research finds

White may hide a dark secret.

Six new spider species discovered, named after children's tales goblins

Spiders, goblins, and brownies.

Scientists find 'nude' creature that lived half a billion years ago

An unusual creature form a long, long time ago.

Earliest evidence of beer brewing in Scandinavia hails from the Iron Age

What would civilization be without beer? A depressing experience, that's what.

Small arms, tongue-tied: T-Rex couldn't stick its tongue out

Put that tongue back in, Jurassic Park!

Reforestation efforts bring back hundreds of species to China

Plant a tree and species will come back to thee.

Climate change will become the leading cause of vertebrate-species loss by 2070

Things are heating up.

Scientists find the first manta ray nursery

The gentle giants of the oceans take good care of their offspring.

NASA creates first 3D model of Amazon rainforest canopy to estimate the effects of droughts, climate change

Drought has a massive effect on rainforests. Bad news in the current changing climate.

Writing a gene in a single day might be possible with new DNA synthesis technique

This is the future of DNA synthesis.

Scientists find 22,000 year-old giant panda belonging to a distinct long-lost lineage

The lazy panda has a richer story than you'd think.

Giant hogweed plant that causes 3rd-degree burns spotted in Virginia

Local authorities in Virginia advise residents to keep an eye out for this very dangerous plant.

David Attenborough urges people to save bees with an adorable teaspoon gesture

It's a small gesture, but it can make a big difference for the tiny bees.

A “textbook changing” new form of photosynthesis has been discovered

A major discovery!

Flying spiders sense the weather and use nanoscale fibers to ride the wind

Spiders ride the wind!

Insecticides and low floral diversity are driving bumblebees into the ground

Each year, queens have to re-establish their colonies. Human activity, however, is making it very hard for them to do so.

A 99-million-year-old amber fossil preserved the earliest frog from tropical forests

Very rare insight into the ancient lives of frogs.

Microhabitat management may be the key to happy, neighborly bears

How to live harmoniously -- the bear version.

Why we need sleep-- a molecular answer

An explanation for why we feel tired.

Ancient volcanism shows our emissions can trigger a mass marine extinction

Ancient volcanism offers a glimpse into the future effects of climate change.

Old fish don't want to swim deep -- but we're fishing them all out of shallow waters

What we thought is a natural law is probably 'just' impending ecological breakdown.

Bees can understand the concept of zero

Nothing is something, and bees know that well.

Scientists find the oldest footprints ever -- from a period we didn't even know things have legs

Talk about a surprising find!

Australian skinks will literally stick their tongues out at predators -- and it works!

:P

In dolphin gangs, everybody knows everyone's name

It's just what the early humans were doing.

Invasive toxic toads could trigger an ecological disaster in Madagascar

It's an ecological time bomb.

There are huge differences in how animals see the world -- we're among the crisp-eyed

Enjoy the world in HD.

Aggressive guppies turn their eyes black to warn other fish

Watch out!

Cell-membrane-coated nanobots successfully clear out 66% of bacteria and toxins in blood samples

Boy oh boy, am I excited for nanomedicine!

One genetic change 3 million years ago made our brains big -- and won us the world

I'm not complaining.

Earth's first giant predators produced killer babies

If the adults weren't scary enough, the babies were also killing machines.

Meet the oldest tree in Europe

A Heldreich pine discovered in southern Italy has been thriving for more than 1230 years.

Life bounced back quickly at the famed dinosaur-ending asteroid impact site

We don't know much about how life bounces back after such a dramatic event.

Scientists are now able to bio-print corneas

This research could usher in corneas-on-demand.

The zombie ant fungus changed to adapt to the climate, study finds

The parasitic fungus Ophiocordyceps kimflemingiae targets a specific host species of carpenter ant, forcing them to drastically change their behavior.

Mongooses remember when their friends helped them -- and help them back

These cute little predators are very social creatures.

Incredibly well-preserved fossils show that dinosaurs also had dandruff

Talk about ancient dandruff.

Stick insects defy death-- their eggs can survive being eaten by birds

They are "re-born."

How the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs spared ground-dwelling birds

Most birds could fly by that time -- but it was the ones that couldn't that survived.

For banded mongooses, 'cultural inheritance' decides what's for dinner

Cultural preference is not unique to humans, and might be much more common than we once thought it to be.

Early mammal fossil shows how the Pangaea supercontinent split up

Talk about a groundbreaking discovery.

Australian wrens recognize friends from other species and work together with them

It's the first time we've seen inter-species cooperation in birds.

Just two days of night-shift alter the activity of more than 100 blood proteins

Night workers beware.

Nope, octopuses probably didn't come from outer space

It's an interesting idea, but it's probably not true. Calm down.

Australian magpies can understand what other birds are 'saying' with surprising clarity

Magpies? Check. Throwing orange balls at magpies? Check. Grated cheese? Check. I love this study.

Puppies reach peak-cuteness around 8 to 10 weeks specifically to make us love them

If this is emotional blackmail. I'm not even mad.

Overeager immune system cells may be to blame for multiple sclerosis

Fortunately, they're hot on the heels of the mechanisms that allow them to affect brain cells.

Ant groups alternate between movement types to avoid obstacles

Birds, err, ants of a fellow flock together.

Early baleen whales were fearsome predators with wicked teeth, but lost them entirely

Baleen, one surprising fossil suggests, evolved from gums rather than teeth.

Why whales are so big

Marine mammals are a strange bunch, and the sea is a very unforgiving environment.

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