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This documentary traces silk from its first appearance on screen, beginning with a close examination of its unusual strength. As specific sequences unfold, scientists explain how silk’s molecular ...

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Dr. Dan Belsky joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about longevity and epidemiology. Why do we grow old ...

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

When infected by a fungal disease, ant pupae actively emit a chemical cue that prompts workers to get rid of them for the ...

New research suggests that long-term exposure to very low concentrations of chlorpyrifos, a widely used insecticide, can ...

How group-psychology status seeking and quasi-religious fervor make anti-Israel activism resistant to logic, evidence, and ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first glance. Its knobby flower stalks look more like a mushroom than a flowering ...

Discover the impact of zebra mussels on Green Lake's ecosystem and learn about efforts to control these invasive species in ...

New research from James Cook University has made the extraordinary discovery that epaulette sharks can reproduce and lay eggs ...