Spinning spider silk
Researchers at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, are working out how to make artificial spider silk. Spiders build their webs out of lightweight, incredibly tough, [...]
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Playing crocodiles
Next time you’re enjoying a splashabout in water, think of crocodiles. Not to keep safe – there’s little danger you’ll see any in the UK – but [...]
Want to sell your poo?
If you’re a bit short of pocket money, you can now sell your poo to doctors in Medford, Massachusetts, in the USA. The OpenBiome organisation is paying $40 for [...]
Sea slug: plant or animal?
Researchers have discovered that the sea slug Elysia chlorotica uses genes from algae to gather energy from sunlight. Genes are instructions for how to build and maintain a [...]
Which is better for you – oranges or orange juice?
Oranges versus orange juice: Which one might be better for your health? Often the advice is given to eat an orange and drink water rather than drink oroange juice, which [...]
Engravings rewrite human history
Scientists have found engravings on a 400,000 year-old fossilised shell from Java. It is the oldest known example of ancient humans deliberately creating pattern. Before [...]
A frog that gives birth
Most frogs lay eggs (frogspawn) in water that grow into tadpoles, froglets and then grown-up frogs. Now scientists have found a frog in the rainforests of Sulawesi Island, [...]
Ancient volcanoes linked to dinosaurs’ extinction
New research from Princeton University in the USA has shown that massive volcanic explosions 66 million years ago spewed enormous amounts of climate-altering gases into the [...]
Supershiny eggs
Relatives of ostriches and emus, Tinamou birds, lay supershiny eggs, but until now no-one knew how the eggs got so beautiful. Researchers at the University of Akron in the [...]
Electric eels hunt by remote control
Researchers have discovered that electric eels use electricity as a sort of remote control on the fishes’ muscles. Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University in the USA [...]
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