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  1. Animals

    Climate stress may undermine male spiders’ romantic gift giving

    Even spider love lives show an effect of climate uncertainty: Stressed males may offer a bit of silk-wrapped junk rather than a tasty insect treat.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Space

    A spacecraft duo will fly in formation to create artificial solar eclipses

    ESA’s Proba-3 mission will use one satellite to block out the sun for another satellite, bringing the sun’s middle corona into new focus.

    By Lisa Grossman
  3. Humans

    Dietary evidence bolsters Clovis hunters’ reputation as mammoth killers

    Mammoths made up as much as 40 percent of the ancient North Americans’ diet, a chemical analysis of human remains reveals.