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Spiders Caught Hunting in Giant Synchronized Swarms, And Now We Know How

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Pack hunting spiders exist in places other than your nightmares. While most spiders enjoy solitary lives, 20 of the roughly 50,000 known spider species live in colonies. One species, Anelosimus eximius, lives in extremely large colonies of up to 1,000 individual spiders that work together to build webs spanning several meters.   When prey falls into their … Read more

How fast is Earth moving?

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As an Earthling, it’s easy to believe that we’re standing still. After all, we don’t feel like we’re hurtling through space. Yet we are.  So how fast exactly is Earth moving around the sun?  Some of the earliest astronomers in recorded history proposed that we live in a geocentric universe in which Earth lies at … Read more

Covid-19 news: Pandemic rapidly moving towards endemicity, says EMA

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By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu and Layal Liverpool Fans watch a football match in Seville, Spain Getty Images Europe Latest coronavirus news as of 12pm on 12 January The coronavirus pandemic is rapidly moving toward becoming endemic, according to the European … Read more

Two black holes merged to form a huge one moving at incredible speeds

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Astronomers have long suspected that merging black holes can give the resulting larger black hole a massive boost of speed, and have finally spotted this happening Space 11 January 2022 By Leah Crane When a pair of black holes merge, the resulting larger black hole can be sent hurtling away at extraordinary speeds – and … Read more

Historical Shipwreck Keeps Moving, Revealing Dangerous Underwater Mudflows

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For a ship that sank 80 years ago, the SS Virginia has traveled a fair distance: the oil tanker has moved more than 10 kilometers since it was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1942. The shipwreck, located off the coast of Louisiana, is riding lobes of mud moving over the seafloor. These mudflows occur … Read more

Historic Shipwreck Keeps Moving, Revealing Dangerous Underwater Mudflows

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For a ship that sank 80 years ago, the SS Virginia has traveled a fair distance: the oil tanker has moved more than 10 kilometers since it was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1942. The shipwreck, located off the coast of Louisiana, is riding lobes of mud moving over the seafloor. These mudflows occur … Read more

Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism

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Scientific American January 2022 In some members, a longing for “simpler” times is giving rise to deadly activities Is this Field Day?” I asked through my car window on a chilly, rainy April morning in central Michigan in 2008. A lone man dressed in head-to-toe camouflage, whose hand was casually resting on an AK-47 rifle … Read more

We Could Harness White Noise to Save The Lives of Millions of Birds. Here’s How

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Billions of birds die each year from collisions with tall glass buildings, communication towers and power lines – a gobsmacking toll that’s expected to increase as cities grow outwards and upwards.   A recent study suggests there could be a way to fix our deadly mistakes – by installing ‘acoustic lighthouses’ that blast white noise … Read more

Moving CO2 from Air to Oceans May Be Necessary to Slow Warming

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Climbing concentrations of carbon dioxide make it likely that humans will have to move some gases from the atmosphere into the oceans to prevent crippling effects of climate change, the National Academies said in a major report released yesterday. It came after months of deliberation among top U.S. scientists who concluded that global efforts to … Read more