More on the mysterious puppeteer spider
Remember this crazy decoy-building spider? Of course you do, you couldn’t forget something so awesome. Turns out that Destin, the guy behind the Smarter Every Day video series, was on […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Blind sea lion pup gets a new home at the Shedd
Twenty-month-old Cruz can’t see, so he’ll need to rely on the staff at the Shedd Aquarium to be his eyes. The pup was just introduced at the aquarium this week […]
An au naturale breeding program
Zoologists at the San Diego Zoo and the Audubon Nature Institute will be leaving love up to the birds and the bees. The two organizations are coming together on a […]
Endangered species caught on video
Spoon-bill sandpiper is a hard animal to spot in the wild. That’s because in its native eastern Russia there are only 100 breeding pairs left. Post-breeding is an even harder […]
A rare look at the giant squid
Despite their size, giant squid aren’t easily caught on camera. The creatures live in the darkest depths of the ocean and have remained largely elusive to scientists. That was before […]
That’s no moon. That’s a space station…
…is what more than 25,000 petition-signers hoped alien life forms visiting the area might one day utter. Because yes, more than 25,000 people petitioned the White House to have the […]
Hotter days ahead
According for the National Climate Assessment, we’re in big trouble. Their newest report is out, and we can expect temperatures across the country to rise two to four degrees over […]
It’s literally the biggest thing we’ve ever seen
It’s so big, it’s toppling previously-held theories about the nature of the universe. We’ve seen Large Quasar Groups (LQGs) before, but never on this scale. The celestial object is a […]
Chemistry is cool
Even amateur chemists can come up with some pretty brilliant ideas. Joe and Bob Switzer started developing what would be known as Day-Glo pigments after they graduated from UC Berkeley, […]
Probably the grossest treatment for diarrhea ever
When you’re dealing with a dirty opponent, sometimes you’ve got to fight dirty. Clostridium difficile, the bacteria that causes diarrhea, is definitely an opponent that hits below the belt, no […]
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