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Chemistry World
November 5, 2008
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Caterpillars fight off ants with surfactant spit Caterpillars and related bugs can fight off insect predators by vomiting a surfactant solution over unwitting attackers, scientists have found. |
Chemistry World
November 11, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Adaptive spider glue remains sticky come rain or shine A salt -- protein mixture present in glue droplets along each thread may allow spiders to tune the stickiness of their webbing. |
Chemistry World
August 14, 2015
Ida Emilie Steinmark |
Ants sniff out subtle chemical differences to navigate social hierarchies Ants can distinguish between very subtle differences in hydrocarbons, including enantiomers, researchers in the US have found. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 64
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Proteins' Web of Intrigue An investigative look into what makes spider silk so strong. |
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Cat Food vs. Cane Toads Forget cricket bats, golf clubs and carbon dioxide. Australia has found a new weapon in its war on the dreaded cane toad: cat food. |
Science News
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TimeLine: Apr. 19, 1930 70 Years Ago in Science News: Travel to The Moon by The Year 2050... Planet Possibly Not Object Predicted... Ant Gestures Have Chemical Cause... |
Fast Company
April 2010
Theunis Bates |
Insectislide Will Keep the Bugs Away A nontoxic coating takes the feet out from under insects. |
InternetNews
October 10, 2006
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Future Search Will Eschew The Spider For The 'Ant' The demand to pull data from dynamic sources will lead to changes in the search market. |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2009
Nina Notman |
Metal toughens up spider silk Spider silk, already one of the strongest fibres known, can be made even stronger by infusing metals into its protein structure, scientists in Germany say. |
Chemistry World
August 6, 2012
Andy Extance |
'Spider threads' bring great self-healing power US and Hong Kong scientists have invented a material that can heal itself from millimeter-scale cracks when heated, using spider-silk inspired plastic threads. |
Chemistry World
November 1, 2011
Hayley Birch |
Water-Catching Spinout From Synthetic Spider Silk Synthetic spider silk can collect water more efficiently than its natural counterpart |
Home Theater
May 27, 2008 |
Crazy Ants Attack Electronics in Texas A newly recognized species of ant is shorting out computers and other electronic gear in Texas. |
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Fire Ants They're the most common and destructive of the fire ants in the United States, and they're common in all of the southern tier states. |
Chemistry World
December 20, 2012
Laura Howes |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2012 This year saw more work probing the nature of bonding. In Germany, Holger Braunschweig found that reacting a bis(N-heterocyclic carbene)-stabilized tetrabromodiborane with sodium naphthalene gave diborene or diboryne compounds with the world's first stable boron -- boron triple bond. |
Chemistry World
August 1, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Ants mix up ionic liquid The first naturally occurring ionic liquid has been discovered by researchers in the US, formed by warring ants who mix their own venom with that from a rival species. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2010
Hayley Birch |
How spider silk soaks up water Spider silk may change its structure when it gets wet, enhancing its ability to capture water from the air, a new study by Chinese scientists suggests |
Chemistry World
June 23, 2015
Sam Ivell |
Glass transition in ant traffic jams Inspired by the fluid-like motion of flocks of birds, researchers in the US have used techniques from soft matter physics to study the way that fire ants move. |
Chemistry World
May 12, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Tying up spider silk's loose ends The way spider silk proteins can be stored as a fluid but spun instantly into fibres is all down to their end parts, European scientists have discovered. |
