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- Australian hospital closes after poisonous spider invasion: report
- SYDNEY AFP — An invasion of venomous spiders has forced an Australian hospital to evacuate patients and temporarily close its doors, reports said Wednesday. Authorities decided the infestation of redback spiders at Baralaba Hospital in Queensland state's Banana Shire was too dangerous for patients, Australian Associated Press reported. ...
- Research articles 2008-04-22
- Alfa back on track
- Byline: By STEVE HUGHES ALFA Romeo has the distinction of being the fastest-growing car company in the UK during 2007, with sales soaring by more than 40%. The company says it is confident that this heralds a sustained revival of the sporting Italian marque, which now has a...
- Research articles 2008-02-22
- A tangled web they weave
- Scientists' heads are spinning over a massive spiderweb in a Texas park. The web is as large as two football, fields! Entomologists believe that two types of arachnids created the weird wonder. "At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," park ranger Donna Garde told The Associated Press....
- Research articles 2007-09-17
- Insect insight Bug expert ranks Top 10 pests in our area.(Neighbor)
- Byline: Catherine Edman cedman@@dailyherald.com Lately, living in DuPage County is a little like living in a 1950s horror flick: "Invasion of the (pesky bug name here.)" In honor of a seemingly endless supply of threatening, monster- like or just...
- Research articles 2007-07-06
- Scientists uncover secrets of black widow spider silk
- LOS ANGELES AFP — The prospect of super-strength military body armor inspired by silk from deadly black widow spiders has moved a step closer after research revealed by a US university. Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, outside Los Angeles, have identified the genes and DNA sequences for...
- Research articles 2007-06-14
- Impotent? Black widow to the rescue
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli researchers are looking into whether venom from spiders, including the deadly black widow, could help cure impotency, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The research was launched after observations that some men bitten by spiders "suffered from prolonged erections," the mass-selling daily Yediot Aharonot said. ...
- Research articles 2007-04-12
- Tarantula and turtle diet saved French jungle hikers
- CAYENNE, French Guiana, AFP — One of two French hikers who survived seven weeks in the jungle of French Guiana on a diet of turtles and tarantulas was at death's door when rescuers found him, his brother says. Loic Pillois and Guilhem Nayral, both 34, had been missing since...
- Research articles 2007-04-06
- Sideshow | Bee Gee is a little bit country
- Disco dude Barry Gibb wants to go country, and he couldn't have picked a better place to channel that ol' hardscrabble rural passion. The onetime Bee Gee is rehabbing the lakefront home of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in Tennessee. He bought the house earlier this year. "I would...
- Research articles 2006-12-18
- Gripping stuff: Spiders spin sticky silk with their feet
- PARIS AFP — Tarantulas secrete sticky silk from their feet to help them adhere to shiny surfaces, German scientists have learned. Spiders are already known to have two mechanisms that give them their uncanny ability to walk upside or cling to smooth vertical surfaces. One is the use of thousands...
- Research articles 2006-09-27
- Britain becoming home to more exotic beasts
- LONDON AFP — It's a jungle out there: the number of sightings of non-indigenous, exotic animals in Britain has sky-rocketed in the last six years, according to a new study. More than 10,000 sightings of everything from wallabies to dangerous spiders, crocodiles and even a penguin have been recorded since...
- Research articles 2006-09-18
- Spiders traced to single Jurassic source
- WASHINGTON AFP — All spider cobwebs have a single origin going back 136 million years to the Jurassic period when dinosaurs roamed the planet, a US study said. "Apparently, spiders have been fishing insects from the earth for a very long time," said study co-author David Grimaldi of the...
- Research articles 2006-06-23
- Spider find sparks 'Jurassic Park' DNA hopes
- LONDON AFP — A British scientist revealed he has discovered a prehistoric spider preserved in amber, possibly meaning its DNA could be extracted -- just as in the blockbuster film "Jurassic Park". The spider, four centimetres (1.5 inches) long by two centimetres wide (0.78 inches), was trapped in resin...
- Research articles 2005-09-30
- Oops -- Legendary spider "Big Meg" turns out to be sea fossil
- PARIS AFP — She was "Big Meg," the largest of all spiders that ever strode the Earth. The 300-million-year-old fossil was so famous that plaster casts of her body are on display in numerous museums and copies can be purchased over the Internet for hundreds of dollars apiece. ...
- Research articles 2005-02-15
- Israeli scientists spin first artificial spider's web
- JERUSALEM AFP — An Israeli university has succeeded in genetically-engineering a form of spider's web almost identical to natural webs which could be developed for commercial use. Created out of genes from the bodies of the spiders themselves, the webs are much stronger than silk and could be used...
- Research articles 2004-11-24
- Tropical spider gives day-off to British school kids
- LONDON AFP — A tropical spider gave pupils at a school in southern England a surprise day-off classes after bug control experts had to be called in. An African spider, brown in colour and as big as a hand, dropped out of a set of drums at the school...
- Research articles 2004-09-28
- NPS Pharmaceuticals close to being a full-fledged pharmaceuticals
- As expected, NPS Pharmaceuticals is now one step closer to becoming a full-fledged pharmaceuticals company. The Salt Lake City-based company announced last week the positive results of its multi-year Phase III clinical trials on PREOS, a compound targeting osteoporosis in post-menopausal women. As part of its...
- Research articles 2004-04-05
- Billy Goat EZair Aerator
- With a unique design and a low center of gravity, Billy Goat's EZair Aerator is easy to control on slopes and delivers consistent results because all of its tines penetrate evenly. Rear casters and front-drive wheels combine for zero-turn maneuverability. An independent throttle controls ground speed, and a convenient handlebar-mounted...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Warding off evil spirits: in the real world, the laws of trespass are clear; but the laws as applied to electronic trespassing are less certain.
- A security manager is informed that an unauthorized user is crawling the company Web site, "scraping" corporate information and using it to make money. Security wants it stopped, but how? The company Web site is open to the world. Anybody with an Internet connection can visit...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Interior Decorating for Divorces; Subway Sex Police
- Byline: Stephen Goode, INSIGHT The following reports have been selected carefully from Reuters dispatches collected by for the people for the improvement of Insight readers. * This column heartily applauds the capitalist spirit wherever and whenever it raises its innovative head, but especially in usually left-leaning Europe...
- Research articles 2003-12-22
- A Tangled Web
- In David Cronenberg's new movie, "Spider," the title character is a paranoid schizophrenic who moves into a halfway house in his childhood suburb after being released from a mental institution. In a nuanced portrait of a mentally ill man struggling to understand his past, Cronenberg blurs the lines between reality...
- Research articles 2003-03-06
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