SoT 145: This Is Not My Office

Published: May 4, 2014, 1:22 p.m.

The world's longest continuously running lab experiment, The Pitch Drop, finally drops for the ninth time.

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Cephalotes ants can glide to nearby trees\xa0when they find themselves skydiving. Also they use their heads as shields.

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The most Earth-like exoplanet yet has been discovered, just 10% bigger than our planet.

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We all know malaria is spread by mosquitoes, but in 1995 in Taiwan there was an outbreak that spread throughout a hospital\xa0without any mosquito assistance.