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Insects Use Plant Like a "Telephone"
Insects Use Plant Like a “Telephone” Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already ‘occupied’.
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China Claims Score In Weather Manipulation
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7 Stunningly Precarious Mountain and Cliff Dwellings: Part Two of an Eight-Part Amazing Houses Series
(images via: Casa Pauline and Nathan Snider and BurlingameBarley) We humans like a bit of adventure, as a rule. We drive fast, we hang glide, we even eat bacon with breakfast. But for the most adventurous among us, nothing is better than living in a dangerously precarious house. These houses are perched high on cliffs […]
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This is What it Looks Like When the Video Camera in Your Hand Gets Struck by Lightning [Nature]
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Dying ships
These ships were abandoned over twenty years ago. Their owners left them to die after the Chernobyl disaster due to their high levels of radiation. One of the great ironies of the this particular tragedy is that many animals and trees are now doing considerably better in the Chernobyl region, than when the humans were […]
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