May 13, 2019
Mosquitoes are a nuisance, a pest, an itchy pain in the rear end, but did you know they’re also a vector? Which means (for those of you who dropped Intro to Biology) they carry diseases and para...
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April 24, 2019
There were few bright spots during the Great Depression, but in some parts of the Midwest, the sun barely shone at all. Why? Dust clouds swirled the plains for years, shrinking visibility to thr...
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April 11, 2019
Spider lore is a tangled web of lies and exaggerations.
These eight-legged wonders rarely bite humans, and even fewer are actually poisonous. They are more Charlotte’s Web than Arachnophobia....
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February 27, 2019
You may not always notice them — and they may not look all that scary — but termites are truly terrifying. Why? These sharp-toothed bugs will literally eat you out of house and home. The Nationa...
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February 19, 2019
Let’s get one thing straight: Possums live in Australia.
Opossums are the sharp-toothed, pointy-nosed, long-tailed weirdos you’ll find hanging off a branch in your backyard. Or scurrying acr...
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