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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: Undead Spiders, Dandelion Drones, Dark Energy Made Light
Description: Researchers are making small claws out of dead spiders, dandelion seeds are inspiring scientists to mimic their distribution with small sensors to be able to better track ecological information, and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is helping us create a 3D map of the universe.Undead Spiders âHow researchers at Rice University in Texas figured out how to revive dead spiders (sort of)â by Orlando Mayorquinhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/28/texas-dead-spiders-necrobotic-grippers/10176634002/?utm_source=usatoday-EveryonesTalking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=baseline&utm_term=hero&utm_content=USAT-8872UT-E-Everyones-TalkingâNecrobotics: Biotic Materials as Ready-to-Use Actuatorsâ by Te Faye Y...