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Cannibal, T-Rex ants spotted for the first time -- they're more timid than we expected

Not so ferocious after all.

Our sense of smell is just as good as rodents' or dogs'

Poor human olfaction is a 19th-century myth, says scientist.

Mussel-glue-and-protein balm could spell the end of scars forever

Sadly, not very effective against emotional scars.

Pristine, demon-faced dinosaur is named after Zuul from ‘Ghostbusters’

The dinosaur was given a rather unfair name, as it was almost certainly a peaceful vegetarian.

Cell maps reveal how the body fights off cancer

Bunch up!

"Last African Dinosaur" discovered in Morocco mine

A new study sheds new light on one of the last living African dinosaurs, from 66 million years ago.

Morning glory seeds are hardy enough to survive in space, experiment reveals

Seeds -- the tiny bunkers of life.

Depressed? It might be because your neurons got their branches tangled up

Keep it tidy, neurons.

Scientists make transparent bones to study diseases like osteoporosis

The innovative method could help millions of people who suffer from osteoporosis.

Barley's full genome sequenced after decade-long research effort

A tiny plant with a lot of genes.

The last male white rhino boldly goes on Tinder to save its species

Super like.

What is gluten and why some people have gluten intolerance

Gluten Morgen!

Macrophages conduct electricity through the heart to keep it beating properly

Wired.

The African naked mole-rat can keep its brain alive for more than 5 hours with no oxygen

Nifty trick.

15-million-year-old pine cones still have the moves

Three ancient pine cones were found almost completely intact in coal mines.

More evidence adds up to support the intelligence of elephants

Researchers have shown that Asian elephants are even smarter than we thought.

No ant left behind: warrior ants carry injured soldiers home

Spoiler alert: they don't do it because they care.

Farmer ants unknowingly domesticated their fungi crops by sequestering them in dry environments

Accidental domestication still counts, right?

Comb Jellies may have been the first animals ever

The debate isn't over, but a comprehensive gene study suggests marine jellyfish were the first creatures to diverge. This distinction is commonly attributed to sponges.

Bacterial communities take turns to eat when food becomes scarce

Aww, they have tiny economic agreements, ain't that cute?

Puffins that migrate together make more chicks

Puffins mate for life but when they also travel together, they become better parents.

Zooplankton are armed to the teeth with spears and ballistic weapons, electron photography shows

+10 attack, -3 inventory space.

A reef-killing starfish's pheromones could be harnessed to exterminate them— and help the reefs!

The starfish are worse for the reefs than bleaching and disease combined.

Fanged blenny 'heroin'-like venom could be the next super-painkiller

Tiny fish, big fangs, huge possibilities.

Immortal cells could usher in the age of plentiful, artificial blood for transfusions

Your body probably won't even tell the difference.

Genetic 'typos' may be a more powerful driver of cancer in humans than environmental factors

Worrying.

If you like having sex, you should thank pathogens for making it possible

#wingmen.

Wherever humans go, mice go too -- since forever

The mouse in the house has been with us for 15,000 years.

New ginger species discovered in African mountains

Who knows what other plants or medicines await discovery in Africa?

Couple donates their $10 million insect collection to Arizona University

A heartwarming story of two brilliant and passionate researchers.

Eating fruit may have given primates their big brains, paving the way for social structures

Chow down.

Laziness could save a fish’s life: a case for establishing marine reserves

Evolution causes these fish to move less so they have a better chance of survival.

What does gestural communication of great apes tell us about human language?

Our language is one of the features that define us as human beings and distance us from all other animals.

This YouTube time-lapse of cellular division in action will have you hitting replay again and again

Enjoy!

If stem cells don't grow as you want them to, just add a dash of parsley-husk scaffolding

To be fair it works with other plants too, but I was shooting for a culinary title.

Tree-on-a-chip mimics passive pumping mechanism found in plants and trees

MIT found an elegant solution to a complex problem.

Insect courtship behavior trapped in 100-million-year-old amber

It's Romeo and Juliet on steroids, with geology.

Deep burial in sub-seafloor sediments seems to 'freeze' microorganism evolution

*pause*

Researchers find the oldest ever crocodile eggs

Crocs emerged alongside the early dinosaurs.

Why we shouldn't bring back the mammoth and other extinct animals

Ice Age Park would be cool, but...

#FossilFriday: "Missing link" of sharks discovered

CT scanning shark fossil reveals their origins.

These fish have evolved the ability to leap onto land -- to avoid being eaten

These fish are quite comfortable out of water.

How cobras developed their devastating flesh-eating venom

The cobra developed a crippling venom -- and it wanted the world to know.

Spiders eat up to 800 million tons of insects and pests a year -- much more than humanity

Spiders eat much more than humans.

World's oldest plant-like fossils indicate we might have to rethink emergence of multicellular life

We might have to recalibrate the tree of life.

A common tree frog has kept a secret for a long time— it glows!

It's the first frog known to be fluorescent.

Cells nudge each other with proteins when moving to keep your body in one piece

Knowing how cells coordinate could let us improve healing speeds and fight cancers.

Green ice spotted in Antarctica's Ross Sea triggers new expedition for April

An effect of warming climate, or just a string of coincidences?

New hydrogel can glue retina back into eye

This could revolutionize eye surgery!

Researchers complete 30% of the synthetic yeast chromosome -- synthetic life is just around the corner

Immense potential in a small cell.

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