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Cacti spines, snake fangs, snail love darts – oh my! How function drives the evolution of nature’s puncture tools

What do cacti spines and wasp stingers have in common? What about snail genitalia and shark teeth?

Weight-loss jabs may create a new kind of yo-yo dieting

Many people regain weight after stopping GLP-1 medicines. Long-term support may be as important as the drugs themselves.

The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws

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Watch This Cyborg Cockroach Test Its New Diving Suit

The custom apparatus lets the cybernetic insects breathe underwater The post Watch This Cyborg Cockroach Test Its New Diving Suit appeared first on Nautilus.

The extraordinary life and quiet death of the world's largest iceberg

Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists critical new insights about our living ocean.

The tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology