These spiders may have the world’s fastest body clocks
WASHINGTON, D.C. — If it takes you a while to recover from a few lost hours of sleep, be grateful you aren’t an orb weaver. Three orb-weaving spiders — Allocyclosa…
Blowflies use drool to keep their cool
SAN FRANCISCO — Blowflies don’t sweat, but they have raised cooling by drooling to a high art. In hot times, sturdy, big-eyed Chrysomya megacephala flies repeatedly release — and then…
Lakers vs. Warriors final score, results: Golden State forces Game 6 as Anthony Davis suffers head injury
Faced with a do-or-die situation in Game 5, the Warriors came up big. A 121-106 win at Chase Center kept Golden State's season alive as they successfully avoided elimination at…
Mysterious high-energy particles could come from black hole jets
It’s three for the price of one. A trio of mysterious high-energy particles could all have the same source: active black holes embedded in galaxy clusters, researchers suggest January 22…
Here’s the key ingredient that lets a centipede’s bite take down prey
Knocking out an animal 15 times your size — no problem. A newly identified toxin in the venom of a tropical centipede helps the arthropod to overpower giant prey in…
New technique could help spot snooping drones
Now there’s a way to tell if a drone is spying on someone. Researchers have devised a method to tell what a drone is recording — without having to decrypt…
Stars with too much lithium may have stolen it
Something is giving small, pristine stars extra lithium. A dozen newly discovered stars contain more of the element than astronomers can explain. Some of the newfound stars are earlier in…
Your phone is like a spy in your pocket
Consider everything your smartphone has done for you today. Counted your steps? Deposited a check? Transcribed notes? Navigated you somewhere new? Smartphones make for such versatile pocket assistants because they’re…
Somewhere in the brain is a storage device for memories
People tend to think of memories as deeply personal, ephemeral possessions — snippets of emotions, words, colors and smells stitched into our unique neural tapestries as life goes on. But…