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Bacteria shapeshift in space in response to antibiotics, becoming far more resilient

Not good news for interplanetary travel.

Ugly Unicorn: Metal-tipped prehistoric ant drank the blood of its victims for dinner

Stabby stabby!

Global warming will kill a third of the world's parasites, and that's not even a good thing

Parasites are a hard sell, but we would certainly gain a lot by understanding their threats.

Researchers find warm oasis beneath Antarctica's frozen wasteland

You could wear a T-shirt in these caves under the Antarctic.

International drug treaties need an urgent revamp as more countries legalize cannabis

Drug control treaties had their time and place. A scholar now argues these are massively outdated.

What plants can teach us about solving traffic jams

Plants too experience internal nutrient traffic jams, and they're fantastic at responding to them.

Macaques may have just entered the Stone Age

Crack open a nutty one.

How northern lights and stranded whales might strangely be connected

The northern lights might be a brilliant spectacle for some, but they spelled doom for some unfortunate sperm whales.

Diverse landscape are more resilient and productive in the face of climate change

If we want to save the planet, we need to keep it diverse.

Scientists catch human evolution in the making

Gene variants linked to Alzheimer's or heavy smoking are being gradually weeded out by natural selection.

CRISPR used for first time to change flower color in Japanese ornamental plant

A popular Japanese flower was used to demonstrate the power of CRISPR.

Insects see in much better resolution than we thought

I spy, with my little thousand eyes...

Some otters learn how to solve problems by observing other otters

Otters are copycats.

Every other day, a new species is discovered in the Amazon

There's also some bad news...

Higher temperature and more CO2 is good for trees, but overall climate change will damage forests

It could start a self-reinforcing loop.

Scientists combine spider silk with graphene, create incredibly powerful web

The best part? The spiders themselves produce it.

Harvey flood: Fire ants make raft from their body to survive and protect their eggs

It's the stuff of nightmares.

Stunning triceratops fossil discovered by chance on construction site

It's an exciting and intriguing find.

Ancient whales had sharp predator teeth unlike today's gentle giants

How baleen whale's filter combs appeared is still an intriguing mystery.

Lonely microbes become resistant against antibiotics more quickly

Being lonely makes you more desperate.

Heavily armored dino might've used its plates as status symbols, to attract mates, intimidate rivals

It's all about passing on your genes.

Blood DNA sequencing reveals there's a lot more microbes living inside you -- and we've never seen over 99% of them before

What we don't know can't hurt us, right? Right? Guys?..

Adorable pig-nosed frog completely new to science found in India

There's more to it than meets the eye.

Juice company dumped orange peels in Costa Rican national park in the 90s -- it revived the forest

Orange is the new forest.

Book Review: 'Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve'

A must-read book spanning time and science.

Excessive use of dental fixture cream leaves UK man without use of his legs

Always use drugs as per instructions!

Air pollution wrecks our DNA, makes us more susceptible to heart failure

If you're expecting, taking some time to visit some more pristine areas of the world might do wonders to your baby's health in the long run.

A trapdoor spider rafted all the way from Africa to Australia

A long way for a little spider.

Two butterflies thought to be different species are actually the same one

Can you tell by looking at them?

Big, armoured dinosaur might have used camouflage to avoid predators

Armor or no armor, it's better to avoid fighting if you can.

Scientists find deep-sea miniature shark that glows in the dark

We've just started discovering the tip of the iceberg in terms of deep sea creatures.

This is what the first flower on Earth probably looked like

Charles Darwin called it "abominable mystery."

Appetite of Amazonian cities impact wildlife up to 1,000 km away

Lots of mouths to feed.

Scientists take a deep look inside mysterious 580-million-year-old creatures

We don't even know if they were plants or animals.

World's first blue chrysanthemums are lab-engineered but look really pretty

More like GMawwww's.

Plant roots grow much like subway systems. Or is it the other way around?

What do a tomato plant and the NY subway system have in common? A lot more than you'd think.

Researchers will drill into one of Earth's youngest islands to understand how land forms

It's not even at retirement age yet.

These sea spiders breathe through their legs

It's amazing how nature can evolve sometimes.

This shark ate a bit of steel, pushed it out through its skin and then healed back up

Sharks have officially reached Wolverine status.

Boiling-acid-proof virus' outer shell structure could inspire better medication, sturdier buildings

Not bad for such a small thing.

A single 'letter' difference in their DNA made some whales huge, others sleek and predatory

That's one really dramatic typo.

Bamboo sharks really have to put their back into eating -- literally

Specifically, they put their shoulders into it.

Too much hair, or too little? There's a single mechanism that causes both and we could fix it with meds

And in the future we should be able to control it with a pill.

Why bigger isn't necessarily faster: a look at animal speed limit

Larger animals are faster -- but only to a certain point.

What creature plans and understands what's in store? Quoth the raven, Nevermore

They've outsmarted all primates, and even four-year-old children.

New study shows how long-necked plesiosaurs swam

We might have to rethink what we thought we know about these creatures.

Praying mantises hunt birds all over the world

Luckily, it's not so common.

The "eelevator" gives migrating eels a ride past obstacles

The lift to save eel lives.

Dinosaur extinction paved the way for an explosion of frog life

Move over dino. *Ribbit-Ribbit*

Almost everything we know about salt may be wrong. Eating salt actually makes you less thirsty but hungrier

Turns out eating a high-salt diet makes the human body act like a camel hump. Read on...

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