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Misumena vatiaspider is a species of spiders that, because of its mouthful of a name, is more widely known for its amazing trait. The females in this species are able to camouflage themselves perfectly, mimicking the color of whatever flower they happen to be lurking on, while waiting for some insect to drop by. In a... |
4 November 2009
11:12 GMT |
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Spiders aboard the International Space Station appear to have given a new meaning to the term “www,” as they wove their “weird wide webs”. Along with a few individuals of painted lady butterflies, the spiders are involved in a study meant to catch the attention and spark the technology an... |
20 November 2008
03:58 GMT |
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The recently unveiled Advanced Micro Devices’ roadmap showed us that the chip manufacturer plans to release a number of new platforms next year, and that one of these platforms is code-named Dragon. The Sunnyvale company has already tried to bring to the market a similar platform, called Spider, which consisted... |
19 November 2008
05:01 GMT |
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The link between the Earth and space projects gets a new, more mundane valency, as hundreds of K-12 students from the University of Colorado in Boulder will get to participate in a biology experiment taking place aboard the International Space Station. More specifically, they will be involved in a thorough observatio... |
12 November 2008
08:38 GMT |
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A new adobe temple named Collud has been uncovered in the northern region of the Lambayeque valley in Peru. The third such edifice to be found in the area, the temple seems to have been dedicated to a spider god by its builders, the little-known civilization of Cupinisque, who ruled the area for about five centuries... |
30 October 2008
11:57 GMT |
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When they feel a life-threatening scent in the air, the tiny spider mites behave very oddly: they fall asleep. A recent study shows that this effect could be used against them, in order to save crops, their main food source.Martijn Egas and his team from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands observed that wh... |
29 September 2008
07:27 GMT |
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Ultraviolet light is known to be harmful for most organisms if it is in excess, but some creatures are turned on by it; we could literally say they do not reach orgasm in its absence. People and mammals in general can't detect ultraviolet light, but for a bizarre type of spiders it is essential for mating, as re... |
6 May 2008
04:30 GMT |
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It's elastic, stronger than steel, it has light weight and we can't fabricate it. At least not up until now. After decades of trying to replicate it in experiments ranging all the way from lab dishes to silk-secreting goats, German researchers have succeeded in creating an artificial spider duct that can &#... |
29 April 2008
06:54 GMT |
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This new finding has come like a shock: the world's most primitive multicellular animals still living are not the sponges, but a more complex animal. The research carried out at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published in the journal "Nature" revealed that the comb jellyfish, which has tissues and a n... |
11 April 2008
04:36 GMT |
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There are about 35,300 species of spiders worldwide, but only about 30 species have venom deadly for the people. Spiders are assigned to 116 families. Spiders represent one of the most adaptable species, resistant to variations of the environmental factors, being amongst the first creatures to inhabit devastated or r... |
27 March 2008
17:21 GMT |
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It is assumed that we have an ancestral fear of snakes and spiders deeply rooted in our genes. But a new research made at the School of Psychology, from the University of Queensland, challenges this concept, as signaled by ScienceDaily."Previous research shows we react differently to snakes and spiders than to other ... |
25 March 2008
05:15 GMT |
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1. Those large hairy spiders are called tarantulas. Their name comes from the port of Taranto (southern Italy). The locals correlated the convulsions and uncontrolled jumps of the victim of a tarantula bite to the local dance of tarantella, and hence the name of these spiders. Biologically, they are included in the f... |
20 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The spider silk is extremely lightweight but at the same time as strong as steel, even if its structure is based on molecular forces 100 to 1,000 times weaker than those encountered in the steel's metallic bonds, or even Kevlar's covalent bonds. A new MIT research has used theoretical modeling, laws of ther... |
19 February 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Spiders are not insects, as most of us think so, and we try to imitate their silk, which has amazing properties. It is five times more powerful than steel and extremely elastic, stretching by 30% more than nylon (2-4 times before breaking off). Still, it does not vibrate like an elastic web for circus jumps, as it wo... |
8 December 2007
08:29 GMT |
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Little took AMD's Spider platform launch to transform into a gigantic failure, and leave them with chipsets, GPUs and no CPUs. Spider is a good choice of words, because AMD dropped the 9700 just as the spider drops its limbs to go away. The 9500s and 9700s finally made it to the market, luckily, because they wer... |
30 November 2007
05:47 GMT |
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Scuba diving has not been invented by people. A small dark spider comes with a spectacular example. The diving bell spider (Argyroneta aquatica) has a 9-15 mm long body covered by very fine and dense small hairs and lives in vegetated, fresh, not running water. Even if this spider lives in the water, it cannot breath... |
24 November 2007
04:11 GMT |
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There are spiders with an innate artistic sense. This is the case of the Argiope spiders, which have beautifully adorned webs with zigzag and spiral patterns. And the artwork is effective: insects are attracted by the fancy webs, but predators, too, as signaled by a new research published in Behavioral Ecology. The m... |
22 November 2007
03:27 GMT |
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These are the most amazing carnivorous plants: the 117 pitcher plant species of the genus Nepenthes, found from Madagascar and southeastern Asia to northeastern Australia. They possess the most spectacular traps, even if considered amongst the least sophisticated functionally, till the publication of a new research i... |
21 November 2007
06:07 GMT |
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Immediately following the Spider platform official release, Kingston Technologies has announced the availability of their 1066MHz ValueRAM cards. The memory manufacturer has worked tightly with the AMD team to achieve top performance memory modules.Computer memory is the only hardware component highly likely to creat... |
20 November 2007
04:33 GMT |
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One week after Intel released the new 45nm processor line, AMD has finally revealed the Spider platform. Although the "box contents" was leaked on the dedicated forums since October, the official release of the Spider platform has just been concluded with the Phenom masterpiece. A few days ago, AMD showed the world t... |
19 November 2007
07:26 GMT |
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Sophisticated techniques are needed to investigate living tiny spiders. But what about a 50-million-year-old one? Such a fossil has been "revived" in an amazing 3D imagery.Dr David Penney from The University of Manchester and researchers from Ghent University in Belgium described the use of 'Very High Resolution... |
31 October 2007
05:05 GMT |
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There are some people who act like crazy in their search for sex. In many spiders, mating is a risky game, as the (usually) much bigger female will kill and eat the male during the mating process. In jumping spiders, sexes are quite similar in size, still the larger partner will eat the smaller. A new research made o... |
24 September 2007
14:06 GMT |
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If you like the red-blue suit, wear it, as people could climb vertical walls in a not such a remote future just like the comics/movie superhero Spiderman. Nature already developed the technology, which is employed by spiders, many insects and gecko lizards. All these species have tiny "hairs" on the tip of their fee... |
3 September 2007
07:00 GMT |
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This is the year of the bot, that's for sure - spam-sending botnets are all over, plaguing us with all sorts of unwanted messages. This being a fact, many people have started taking spam seriously and have started fighting it. Some security experts have built filters, others have blacklists, while only a few try... |
31 August 2007
02:49 GMT |
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The black widow is perhaps most famous for its deadly venom, but few know that this spider's dragline silk is a standout compared to other spider silks due to its superior strength, toughness and extensibility, a combination that makes it absorb huge energy quantities. Now a team at the University of California,... |
15 June 2007
04:21 GMT |
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Spider silk is extremely flexible, yet it is one of the strongest materials found in nature: at the same thickness, it is stronger than the steel. That's why researchers have been trying for so long to imitate it. Now an Oxford University team shows that if you intend to spin silk like a spider, then you should ... |
5 June 2007
08:33 GMT |
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For the beginning, spiders are not insects. They are perhaps the most detested bugs for whom we have a natural fear, just like in the case of snakes. Indeed, a spider bite could kill a monkey, so we have this deep imprinted in our genes. In many cultures, including the Western, they are associated with sorcery. In o... |
2 May 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Girls, do not be so afraid of spiders! They can be your best friend. Researchers have known for long that the powerful venom of the Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria nigriventer) does more than sending you to a hospital: it induces hours-long erection. The toxins provoke general pain and higher blood pressure, ... |
1 May 2007
03:03 GMT |
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People enjoy flying. This pleasure comes like a shout since the antiquity, with the myth of Daedalus. And ballooning brings you closer to a real sensation of hovering. But do not think that humans are the only wingless beings able to fly. Spiders too enjoy ballooning and thousands of flying spiders can flood a terrai... |
13 April 2007
07:17 GMT |
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Believe it or not, but a spider thread, related to its thickness, is stronger than steel and more elastic than rubber. It is one of the most expandable, resistant to tearing, and tough materials found in nature. Being organic and non-toxic, the spider silk would represent the ideal material for a large array of medi... |
5 April 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Promiscuity is wide spread in nature. Females can have sexual contacts with many males, something their male partners cannot prevent. That's why they have developed certain mechanisms that turn these actions sterile and make them father the offspring: this is called sperm competition. In the wasp spiders, the ma... |
6 March 2007
06:33 GMT |
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