Ari Daniel
Stories
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Most spiders wait for prey to fly into their webs — not slingshot spiders
The tiny ray spider uses its web to grab its prey out of the air. Though common practice with comic book characters, this ability is unusual in spiders.
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Aerogel is meant to make EV batteries safer — but what is this special substance?
The Department of Energy is focusing on aerogels to reduce the severity of lithium battery fires. a lab that creates the substance shares the pros and cons of this technology in creating safer EVs.
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When we think of animals that pollinate, wolves probably don't come to mind
Scientists observed wolves in Ethiopia feeding on flower nectar. This may be the first instance of a predator serving as a pollinator.
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What a mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common
A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.
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Searching for tiny dung beetles that clean the vast forest floor
Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts gives clues into the health of forests and fields.
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This seashell could help improve nanotechnologies, fiber optic cables and more
A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.
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The dung beetle census is a window into their ecosystem
Creating a census of the dung beetles of Massachusetts could help inform how to make sure dung beetles keep doing their important work in forests and farming fields.
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A newly-discovered fossil could help solve a longtime mystery
Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape. An 80 million-year-old bird fossil that sheds light on that mystery.
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Small fossil has big implications for bird brain evolution
Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on that mystery.
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Dinosaurs unearthed in China may have ended with a collapse, not a catastrophe
There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.
