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Technology

Old Scientist: Safety first, from fly killer to plutonium

There are a terrifying number of ways to be unsafe, as a look through the April archives of New Scientist shows

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GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

Life

GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

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Life

Beetlemania: Five amazing beetles from around the world

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Life

Beetlemania: How a supergroup scuttled to world domination

Features

Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

Life

Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

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Life

Two herbivores gang up and silence a plant's cries for help

News

Beetles hide by looking like the bite marks they make on leaves

Life

Beetles hide by looking like the bite marks they make on leaves

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Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies

Life

Newly-discovered fungi turn luckless ants into kamikaze zombies

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Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females

Life

Mute male crickets are still trying to serenade females

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Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

Life

Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean

If a Matabele ant loses a limb in a battle with termites, its nestmates will tend its injuries - a behaviour never before seen in any non-human animal

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Life

Beetles escape alive after almost 2 hours in a toad’s stomach

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Earth

The origin of insect wings has been revealed by gene editing

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Life

Smell of death tells undertaker bees it's time to remove corpses

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Life

How besieged ants decide when it’s time to abandon their nests

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