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Science news
The gist
Science News ran a week of stories from glowing deep-sea spiders to a bug named after Taylor Swift.
The mix shows how wide the science beat runs.
How it unfolded
- Early 2000sResearchers including entomologist Christiane Weirauch at UC Riverside began collecting and describing plant bugs in Australia.
- Early 2010sThe idea of growing miniature brain structures in a lab dish emerged, after researchers in Austria showed stem cells could self-organize into 3-D tissue resembling aspects of the developing human brain.
- 2017Mallefet and colleagues discovered bioluminescence in giant sea spiders on an expedition off southeastern Australia.