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Lady Spiders Demand Gifts From Their Gentleman Callers - Or Else They Eat Them
As the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine notes, 15 male spiders in the study that courted without gifts were eaten before mating, compared with just one male spider with a gift. And that gift-bearing spider was eaten after copulation, so from an evolutionary standpoint, he really had nothing to complain about.
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Air Pollution Kills Over 5.5 Million People Worldwide Annually
More than 5.5 million people worldwide die prematurely every year due to household and outdoor air pollution, and India and China together account for 55 per cent of these deaths, new research has found.
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A Brief History Of Gravity, Gravitational Waves And LIGO
This has turned into Gravity Week here in Washington. Loads of journalists (many in town for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science) crammed into the National Press Club on Thursday morning for a news conference to discuss an experiment called LIGO, which stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Obse...
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Twitter Can Help Doctors Understand Patients Better
Using Twitter can help physicians answer health queries from their patients in a better way, say researchers from University of British Columbia.
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Scientists Warn of 'Mega-Drought' Risk in Western US
Long-lasting mega-droughts could occur with increasing frequency in the western United States later this century if no action is taken to rein in climate change by curbing fossil fuel use, researchers said on Thursday.
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Lady Spiders Demand Gifts From Their Gentleman Callers - Or Else They Eat Them
As the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine notes, 15 male spiders in the study that courted without gifts were eaten before mating, compared with just one male spider with a gift. And that gift-bearing spider was eaten after copulation, so from an evolutionary standpoint, he really had nothing to complain about.
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Air Pollution Kills Over 5.5 Million People Worldwide Annually
More than 5.5 million people worldwide die prematurely every year due to household and outdoor air pollution, and India and China together account for 55 per cent of these deaths, new research has found.
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A Brief History Of Gravity, Gravitational Waves And LIGO
This has turned into Gravity Week here in Washington. Loads of journalists (many in town for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science) crammed into the National Press Club on Thursday morning for a news conference to discuss an experiment called LIGO, which stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Obse...
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Twitter Can Help Doctors Understand Patients Better
Using Twitter can help physicians answer health queries from their patients in a better way, say researchers from University of British Columbia.
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Scientists Warn of 'Mega-Drought' Risk in Western US
Long-lasting mega-droughts could occur with increasing frequency in the western United States later this century if no action is taken to rein in climate change by curbing fossil fuel use, researchers said on Thursday.
