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How Lice Turn Your Hair Into Their Jungle Gym
At the end of spring break, your kids might be bringing back something more than just good memories of that family vacation. Holidays, it turns out, are a time when head lice spread. Anytime kids’...
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Porcupines Give You 30,000 Reasons to Back Off
At first, the idea of using porcupine quills to patch up wounds sounds torturous. But now researchers are taking inspiration from the spiky rodent to make a new type of surgical staple that may be less...
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This Millipede and Beetle Have a Toxic Relationship
Across Northern California, as the rainy season is ending and spring is taking hold, bees are buzzing, flowers are growing and hikers are hitting the trails. But down at ground level, the pastoral...
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Honey Bees Make Honey … and Bread?
Spring means honey bees flitting from flower to flower. In California, this frantic insect activity that starts in late winter and continues through the summer is essential to growing foods like...
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These Face Mites Really Grow on You
I hate to break this to you, but you almost certainly have tiny mites living in the pores in your face right now. They’re called Demodex. And pretty much every adult human alive has a population of...
View ArticleBear Wanders Onto UC Davis Campus (Video)
College is where youth set out on their own, but UC Davis was not the right fit for this one Tuesday. Before dawn, a male black bear, weighing about 100 pounds, was spotted on the southside of campus...
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Meeting a Wormlion Is the Pits
An assortment of tiny wormlions. (Joyce Gross) Ominous creatures that lurk deep underground in the desert, like the sandworms in the classic science fiction novel “Dune,” aren’t just make-believe. For...
View ArticleAI Is Making It More Difficult Than Ever to Spot a Fake Video
Sophisticated and inaccurate altered videos known as “deepfakes” are causing alarm in the digital realm. The highly realistic manipulated videos are the subject of a House Intelligence Committee...
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Watch Bed Bugs Get Stopped in Their Tracks
Summer is a time of travel and fun. But with every bed an exhausted traveler lies on after a day of sightseeing, the chances of bringing home an unwanted bug increase. Don’t let this happen to you. An...
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Underwater Video Shows Violent Shaking During 7.1M SoCal Earthquake
On Friday, July 5th, at 8:20 pm, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked a wide area of Southern California. The quake struck outside of Ridgecrest, but it was also felt about 150 miles to the east, at...
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5 Things You Thought You Knew — But Didn’t — About Rattlesnakes
It’s summertime. The season for hiking and adventures outdoors. You might see a rattlesnake out on the trail. Don’t freak out. Most of what we think we know about rattlesnakes is off base. Here are a...
View ArticleVIDEO: This Robot Is Tougher Than You, Stronger Than You, and Shaped Like a...
Cockroaches are gross to lots of people. But not to a group of robotic engineers that’s part of partnership between UC Berkeley and Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute. Where other folks are...
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Peregrine Falcons are Feathered Fighter Jets, Basically
UC Berkeley is known for a lot of things, from Nobel Prizes to football games at Memorial Stadium and top-flight students. But lately, two campus residents have been getting a lot of attention: A pair...
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This Bee Gets Punched by Flowers for Your Ice Cream
Sure, cows are important. But next time you eat ice cream, thank a bee. Without them, there would be no cones, milkshakes or sundaes. Every summer, alfalfa leafcutting bees pollinate alfalfa in an...
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Kidnapper Ants Steal Other Ants’ Babies — And Brainwash Them
A miniature drama is playing out on the forest floor in California’s preeminent mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, at this time of year. As the sun sets, look closely and you might see a stream of red...
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These Giant Leaf Insects Will Sway Your Heart
You’ll have to look closely to spot a giant Malaysian leaf insect when it’s nibbling on the leaves of a guava or mango tree. These herbivores blend in seamlessly with their surroundings because they...
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This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies
Some of the scariest monsters are the ones that grow inside another being and take over its body. Think of the movie “Alien,” where the reptile-like space creature pulsates and grows inside its...
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Tarantulas Take Hooking Up to the Next Level
Why did the tarantula cross the road? It may sound like the setup of a joke, but it’s a very real question to anyone hoping to catch a glimpse of the annual tarantula migration in southeastern...
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The Curious Webspinner Insect Knits a Cozy Home
Webspinner silk underneath a log at Guadalupe Oak Grove Park in San Jose, California. (Josh Cassidy/KQED) With the holidays just around the corner, it’s that time of year when you’re ready to burn off...
View ArticleVideo: Step Aside Julia Child. For the Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey, Turn to...
The only thing worse than watching your Thanksgiving dinner devolve into a heated political debate is a dry, tasteless turkey. But it doesn’t have to be this way. If you’re looking to keep your...
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