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Image: Nick Harris/Flickr In the caterpillar-versus-plant fight, the winner might seem obvious. One side sits motionless in the sun, while the other feasts on it. But the tomato plant has a nefarious defense strategy. In some encounters with herbivores, it winds up relatively unscathed, while the caterpillars wind up eating each other. Researchers have long…

Image: Timothy R. Dwyer (PolarTREC 2016), Courtesy of ARCUS Earth’s oceans are well-stocked with otherworldly inhabitants, but few of these critters are quite as strange as sea spiders, which look like something that would lurk in the crawlspace under Slender Man’s house. With their impossibly spindly legs, sea spiders—which aren’t even actual spiders—stride across the…

One small step through the parking lot (Image: Blachowicz et al, Microbiome (2017)) Humans will make outer space dirty. NASA puts a lot of effort into keeping space clean. The Office of Planetary Protection, for example, exists to protect the Earth from potential life on other planets—but they also have to protect other planets from…

Screenshot: Chrome Since the president’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity requested voter rolls from state election officials—allegedly for the purpose of investigating Trump’s unproven claims about widespread voter fraud—45 states and the District of Columbia have either partially or wholly declined to share their data, and security experts have raised concerns about whether the commission…

Image: Gizmodo Amazon has touted its “Prime Day” each year as a new kind of holiday, one in which the deals are virtually endless and anyone would be a sucker not to take advantage of them. But each year we learn that it’s mostly an opportunity for Amazon to offload the shit it couldn’t sell.…

Screenshot: Drudge Report Conservative media juggernaut Matt Drudge has long been a defender of and even a reported advisor to Donald Trump. He’s never seen a negative story about our megalomaniac-in-chief that he couldn’t dismiss. But today, he was faced with a scandal that appears to be big trouble for the White House and all…

Image: AP A re-evaluation of JFK’s health history and medical records paints a portrait a man who had to endure a surprising amount of physical discomfort throughout his short life. As president, he did his best to hide his misery from the public—no small miracle, given just how much pain he was forced to endure.…

LONDON – A British judge, the parents of the very ill baby Charlie Gard a few days the time given to new evidence that their son would benefit from an experimental treatment in the United States. The judge decides in the case Thursday, but may not immediately ruling. Hitherto, ruled the courts that a trip…

SAN FRANCISCO – Users of Twitter can now even easier other accounts to ignore. The social media has a number of new filters introduced allowing twitter users to have more control over their own notifications, so you made Twitter Monday known. A user may, among other accounts, filter just are new users or to him…

MOUNTAIN VIEW – More than half of the internet users cannot see the difference between a safe and unsafe wi-fi network. According to research from security company Symantec among 15000 people all over the world, including a thousand Dutchmen. Sixty percent said they feel safe when they are browsing on a public network, one in…