Shark skin isn't just for suits (or sharks). It can prevent hospital-transmitted infections.
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Think Like a Tree: How Shark Skin Can Save Us From Superbugs
Absurd Creature of the Week: Um, This Leech Feeds on Hippo Rectums
The year was 2003, and Mark Siddall was in South Africa a-hunting the elusive hippo rectum leech.
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Think Like a Tree: Learning From the Oaks that Survived Katrina
Architects and scientists may be able to work together to build natural-disaster resistant buildings...by looking at trees.
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What I Learned From Sequencing the Bacteria in My Apartment
Yes, there are poop bacteria.
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Why Frozen Sperm Can’t Save Earth’s Imperiled Species—Yet
Why can’t we just artificially inseminate all the endangered animals? Game over, extinction … right?
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Fish That Wears a Suction Cup as a Hat
You know those fish that cling to sharks? It's all possible thanks to a suction cup they wear as a hat.
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New Gene-Editing Techniques Mean a Lot of GMO Loopholes
The United States' GMO rules never worked well, and new, precise gene-editing techniques are stretching them to the breaking point.
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Crafty Ants Form Conga Lines to Drag Millipedes to Doom
As if you needed another reason to declare ants the most legit insects on Earth, take a look at this video.
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Ants Are Really Good at Sniffing Out Enemies—Literally
New research shows just how adept ants are at sniffing the hydrocarbons of their friends—and enemies.
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This Wasp Mind-Controls Spiders Into Building It Cozy Webs
A parasite wasp somehow mind-controls spiders into building a special web to protect it.
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