Sure, the Discovery series Mythbusters dispels a lot of widely believed, but ultimately false, ideas. Myth-busting happens all the time, though without the glam and glitz of a TV show. It’s happening in research departments all around the world every day. In fact, the majority of it happens in academia. Can reading in the dark [...]

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A somewhat disturbing new study says that a single gene found in a caterpillar virus sends its victims running for the treetops, where they die and their bodies liquefy. This sends an ooze of death onto other caterpillars below, infecting new victims. This species of baculovirus infects only gypsy moth caterpillars, basically morphing them into [...]

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