Photo in the News: Spiders' Glowing Key to Courtship, Mating
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Both female and male ornate jumping spiders are dependent on ultraviolet light to kick off the courtship process&#8212;but in entirely different ways.
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A conference about identity on the internet almost succeeds in squashing the sex-positive optimism that usually permeates Sex Drive. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 15  /PRNewswire/ -- The most recent edition of Molecular Systems Biology (a Nature publication), released this week, contains the results of a study discovering a "missing link" between metabolic pathways and cell reproduction.
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Life & style: Online dating agencies are changing to attract the MySpace generation.
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Some brainy animal species, besides humans, campaign across sophisticated and far-flung social networks
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By LOVELL-SMITH Mary  The Bugman, Ruud Kleinpaste, can put on a good show, but he has a serious message about biodiversity and the survival of the human race, writes MARY LOVELL-SMITH.   Imagine bandages of daddy-longlegs' webs or antibiotics made from the glands of a bull ant.
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Midwestern spiders always get big as they prepare to lay eggs, but this year they're even fatter thanks to a cool, wet summer that sustained their favorite snack &#151; insects.
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This week: African rebels eat gorillas, spiders' glow seen as sexy, humans killed off Ice Age Aussie animals, "black" diamonds hail from space, and more.
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A NASA probe that shot past Mercury  this month detected a puzzling geological feature that  scientists on Wednesday labeled "The Spider" and found evidence  of past volcanic activity on the closest planet to the sun.
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Neuroscientists use coral and jellyfish DNA to create colorful arrays of neuronal connections in mouse brains.
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A 53-million-year-old spider is revealed in exquisite detail by scientists from the UK and Belgium.
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When a male grizzly rubs a pine tree with his backside, it&#39;s not to satisfy an itch but to ward off competition while he looks for a female, according to unusual research to be unveiled next week.
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An enormous spider web covers a 180m stretch of trees and shrubs in a north Texas park.
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This week: monster glowing squid filmed, Franz Ferdinand singer on food and travel, moths pose as spiders, "doomsday" vault design unveiled, and more.
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Male Anole lizards signal ownership of their te
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Why do we gossip? Evolution may hold some surprising answers.
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American zoologists say they can settle a long-running debate about how male hummingbirds are able to whistle at females of the species to try to entice them into mating.