Latest articles by Matt Soniak
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How snakes use GPS to find their prey
feature The slithery predators have no problem locating escaped prey after it's been poisoned. Now scientists think they know how.
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How diet affects an animal's chance of becoming roadkill
feature Omnivores have the worst luck
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How 8 famous writers chose their pen names
feature Because Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski can be a bit of a mouthful
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Are poinsettias as dangerous as everyone says?
feature The truth behind the lore surrounding the seasonal plant
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The girl who grew Lincoln's beard
feature The 16th president achieved follicular fame thanks to an 11-year-old girl
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What a set of serrated teeth could tell us about ancient ecology
feature Dimetrodon's chompers are a window into the past
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What do the Olympic rings mean?
feature The Olympic rings are everywhere this month, from the Athletes' Village in Sochi to cereal boxes in the U.S. Here's a look at what they're supposed to symbolize.
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Maybe lions aren't cheetah-murdering monsters after all
feature Kumbaya
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Why do some animals have spikes, while others have armor?
feature The origins of 6 animal defense mechanisms
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How did flightless birds travel around the world?
feature It's a question that has bedeviled ornithologists for years. And it might have just been solved.
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Why don't octopuses get stuck to themselves?
feature Their arms have mighty suckers, but octopuses somehow manage to avoid wrapping themselves up in knots
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Why don't octopuses get stuck to themselves?
feature Their arms have mighty suckers, but octopuses somehow manage to avoid wrapping themselves up in knots
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Meet the sommelier of insect stings
feature A yellowjacket sting is "hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W.C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue."
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The deadly sexism of hurricane naming
feature There was nothing "weak, warm, and passive" about a hurricane named Sandy
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The koala's secret to staying cool: Hugging
feature Tree-hugging, to be exact
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Science has a formula for when you can tell jokes about tragedy
feature Tell that joke too soon and your friends will think you're a jerk. But wait too long, and you'll just seem lame.
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The bizarre sex lives of spiders
feature Some even give Valentines...
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Why you want to save the whales, but not the crickets
feature Not all wildlife is created equal in our eyes, and our perception matters a lot when it comes to conservation
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Cheaters do prosper. Just ask a cuckoo.
feature The cuckoo thrives by cutting corners
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Inside nature's most painfully bizarre sexual ritual
feature It involves sex-reversed genitalia and a barbed, inflatable member
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How spiders can tell if their mate is sleeping around
feature One species puts a whole new spin on spidey sense
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This is why you don't have sex with other species
feature Some worms find interspecies mating to be a deadly affair
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Meet the Mariah Carey of bats
feature The bat is a versatile chirper, going from whispers to intense screams
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'Zoom and enhance': A much-mocked CSI trope becomes reality
feature Scientists figure out the image enhancement technique that TV cop dramas have been using for years
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