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• Method for building artificial tissue devised
• Groundwater depletion in semiarid regions of Texas and California threatens US food security
• Velvet spiders emerge from underground in new cybertaxonomic monograph

Method for building artificial tissue devised Posted: 28 May 2012 12:48 PM PDT Physicists have developed a method that models biological cell-to-cell adhesion that could also have industrial applications.

Groundwater depletion in semiarid regions of Texas and California threatens US food security Posted: 28 May 2012 12:48 PM PDT The US's food supply may be vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture, according to a new study. The study paints the highest resolution picture yet of how groundwater depletion varies across space and time in California's Central Valley and the High Plains of the central U.S.

Velvet spiders emerge from underground in new cybertaxonomic monograph Posted: 23 May 2012 08:50 AM PDT An international team of researchers has produced a milestone work, detailing and expanding the knowledge of velvet spiders - an enigmatic, although not very well known family, with some peculiar (for spiders) social habits. The study was published in a special issue of the open access journal ZooKeys.

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