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Man-made: we've domesticated our own species

Does this make us pets?

Australian fire beetles have built-in heat sensors to avoid hot wood

Bring the heat!

Medical ants rescue and care for injured comrades

The behavior surprised biologists, showing just how complex ants really are.

Far-ultraviolet lamps could eradicate airborne viruses in public spaces -- with no risk to us

It can't go through our skin, but it will wreck viruses and bacteria.

Primitive 'walking' fish can teach us how the first land animals evolved

An amazing 'living fossil' suggests ancient marine life evolved the software for walking before the hardware.

Meteorite and volcanoes may have worked together to wipe out dinosaurs

It was a devastating one-two punch.

Sick bees take care of themselves by eating better quality food

Sadly the study makes no mention of chicken soup.

Billions of viruses are showering the planet's surface in every moment

Virus rain.

Study reveals how ants produce antibiotics

You can't spell antibiotic without ant.

A worm's brain was uploaded to a hard drive and put to the test -- without a single line of code

The distinction between brain and computer has never been blurrier.

Stomach burn: toads vomit bombardier beetles which trigger explosions in the gut

This amazing insect doesn't flinch at the thought of getting eaten. It pops!

Spider-like arachnid with a tail sheds new light on origin of spiders

Spider meets scorpion.

Rats trade with each other and are surprisingly fair, research finds

Hey, kid! Psss, kid! Wanna buy some cheese?

The Search for Alien Life: We Have Been Looking in the Wrong Places

If there are any, aliens should be less conspicuous and charismatic-looking than most people think.

Humanity killed off mega-herbivores -- but climate change might warrant bringing them back

Turns out eating all the mammoth wasn't that good of an idea.

Research into nugget-forming bacteria paves the way to better gold extraction methods

It's not every day you meet someone who poops solid gold -- but today is one such day.

Amazing fossil shows that Earth's earliest birds evolved just like Darwin's finches

These proto-birds may have evolved just like their modern relatives.

Orcas are able to imitate human speech. Here's how it sounds like

These clever marine mammals never cease to amaze us!

Big dinosaur is a big piece of evidence for Africa's geological past

This isn't the last piece of the puzzle -- in fact, it's the very first.

Veterinarians treat burned bears with fish skin -- and it seems to be working

The unusual treatment might have just saved the bears' life.

Humans got a brain upgrade less than 200,000 years ago, and it made us what we are today

The brain changes and the skull follows.

New population of extremely rare fish found by accident

Going from 40 to 80 individuals is still not where you want to be, but this certainly is encouraging news.

Space might be teeming with viruses that we're not looking for, but we should

When the very large can't be found, maybe it's time to look for the very small.

New fossil shows when worms developed heads

Too often we take our heads for granted.

The genome of the first African in Iceland has been reconstructed, without any physical remains

He lived 200 years ago.

Longest underwater cave in the world found in Mexico

Researchers also discovered gorgeous cenotes that may be connected with Maya religious beliefes.

Chameleons display fluorescent bones on the skull, study shows

Researchers discovered a new outstanding feature of the chameleon: its bones shine in a blue hue in UV light.

Small cells allowed flowering plants to take over the world

Size isn't everything.

CT scans reveal the secrets of a 200-million-year-old dinosaur -- and you can 3D print it for free

New technology, meet old fossils.

Research of snakes' straight-line movement could power the rescue bots of the future

Yessss, thissss issss good resssssearch.

Biologists discover 18 new species of spiders -- and they look just like pelicans

Though they might look goofy, these assassins are ruthless killers.

This IKEA ad might change your life -- if you pee on it

Embedded inside the magazine is a redesigned ELISA pregnancy test.

Firehawks: In Australia, birds of prey are intentionally setting the forests on fire

There's a new arsonist in town -- one with wings instead of hands.

Giant, ancient bat discovered in New Zealand could walk on all fours

The extinct species offers a glimpse into New Zealand's long-lost mammal fauna.

Rare, delicate fossils show butterflies emerged before flowers did

If there's one thing this study shows, it's that butterflies are survivors.

Researchers close in on the reactions which fed the first life on Earth

Everyone's gotta eat!

The world's oldest bird is a proud mama yet again

She's 67 years old.

Scientists engineer air-filled bacteria they can track wiggling inside you with sound

The plan is to use them to find tumors and other places of interest.

The death knell already sounded for coral reefs, it's time to save anything we can

The oceans will be the less without them.

Unlike humans, bonobos prefer jerks

Bonobos are surprisingly human-like, but this is where things start to diverge.

Plants actively gauge their competition and switch strategies to one-up them

We all have to make ends meet. Even plants.

Astronauts identify microbes in space for the first time

We really do contaminate everything we touch -- and space is no exception.

Mitochondria in the brain changed by cocaine use -- the findings could help us better fight addictions

Maybe other drugs have similar effects.

Snake fungal disease could be a global threat, much bigger than we thought

"This really is the worst-case scenario," said one scientist.

The earliest life forms could be these 3.5-billion-year-old microbes

The amazing discovery suggests that alien life might actually be common.

Human touch can feel molecule-thin differences, according to new study

Receptors in our ligaments, knuckles, wrist, elbow, and shoulder likely also play a part in our sense of touch.

Japanese monkeys are apparently having sexual intercourse with deer

Nature gets pretty weird sometimes.

Glowing plants imbued with firefly enzymes might one day replace lamps

A bright idea!

Human-use anesthetics also knock out plants, weirdly, teaching us a lot about such drugs

It's funny to realize that we've been using anesthetics for at least a century now, but we still don't *really* know why they work.

Intriguing optical illusion proves most humans have 'curvature blindness'

Can your brain handle this?

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