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Invasive jorō spiders get huge and flashy — if they’re female https://ift.tt/nvp2dmr Some thumbnail-sized, brown male spiders in Georgia could be miffed if they...

How scientists found an African bat lost to science for 40 years https://ift.tt/LDYKfki Julius Nziza still remembers the moment vividly. Just before dawn on...

PARIS — The activists gathered on a Parisian bridge on a sunny March morning have two enemies: U.S. tech giant Amazon and French President...

‘Vagina Obscura’ shows how little is known about female biology https://ift.tt/Oqj8hab Vagina ObscuraRachel E. GrossW.W. Norton & Co., $30 More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates,...

Up to 40% of food in the U.S. is discarded. But as VOA’s Julie Taboh reports, a company in the Netherlands has come up...

Wally Broecker divined how the climate could suddenly shift https://ift.tt/a84IVqn It was the mid-1980s, at a meeting in Switzerland, when Wally Broecker’s ears perked...

Grainy ice cream is unpleasant. Plant-based nanocrystals might help https://ift.tt/gLcyvQ3 You can never have too much ice cream, but you can have too much...

BERLIN — German officials plan to prosecute people who display the “Z” symbol associated with Russia’s war in Ukraine. The interior ministry said Monday it...

Social mingling shapes how orangutans issue warning calls https://ift.tt/w0PyuAa Human language, in its many current forms, may owe an evolutionary debt to our distant...

How a virus turns caterpillars into zombies doomed to climb to their deaths https://ift.tt/w0PyuAa Higher and higher still, the cotton bollworm moth caterpillar climbs,...

In the final race to secure a new transatlantic data deal, Ursula von der Leyen and Joe Biden pulled rank. On Friday, the European Commission...

Lost genes may help explain how vampire bats survive on blood alone https://ift.tt/TFPDefi Surviving on blood alone is no picnic. But a handful of...

Readers react to disinfectants made from sawdust, goldfish that drive and more https://ift.tt/3Oekiwb Leaving microbes in the dust Antimicrobial molecules in wood waste could be...

An extraordinary era in 80,000-plus articles https://ift.tt/TFPDefi This issue marks a milestone for Science News — the 100th birthday of our magazine. It’s been an...