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To some, the thought of snakes flying through the air is the scariest thought imaginable, but, as we'll explain, flying snakes don't actually fly, they 'fall with style.'

Image from Scientific American (Credit: S Gart, J Socha, Vlachos, Jung)

Microbes wriggling. Snakes flying. Helmets crashing together.

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the Fralin Life Sciences Institute returns.

When The Brood X Cicadas Descend In Masses, So Do Bug Scientists Millions upon millions of Brood X cicadas are emerging, and entomologist Marianne Alleyne didn't want to miss it. "I didn't see it 17 years ago, and I wanted to experience it," says Alleyne. "My brother-in-law actually put it perfectly: 'This is your entomology Woodstock, isn't it?'" Brood X isn't the only group of cicadas that spends nearly two decades underground, but it is the biggest and most famous. The return of these enormous black bugs only lasts about six weeks and is a rare chance for researchers to try to understand e...