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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

  1. Early 2000sResearchers including entomologist Christiane Weirauch at UC Riverside began collecting and describing plant bugs in Australia.
  2. 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.
  3. 2017Mallefet and colleagues discovered bioluminescence in giant sea spiders on an expedition off southeastern Australia.

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