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Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they’ve entered a home. But new research has, for the first time, identified one thing the bugs seem to fear ...

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When we think about creatures skimming across water, images of birds landing or frogs leaping come to mind. But some of nature’s most astonishing feats take place at a scale often smaller than a ...