Sometimes scientists discover a new species after long hours of searching. Sometimes they find a new species by accident. A team of researchers in China took a slightly different approach. The ...
That spider you squished? It could have been used for science! At least, that's what Faye Yap and Daniel Preston think. Yap is a mechanical engineering PhD student in Preston's lab at Rice University, ...
In a first-of-its-kind experiment, NASA recreated the conditions needed to make the iconic Mars "spiders" seen on the Red Planet. Earlier this year, the Mars Express captured photo evidence of these ...
Researchers took the imaginary scenes from Spider-Man seriously and created the first web-slinging technology in which a fluid material can shoot from a needle, immediately solidify as a string, and ...
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It’s well understood that spiders have poor eyesight and thus sense the vibrations in their webs whenever prey (like a fly) gets caught; the web serves as an extension of their sensory system. But ...
Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...
Researchers collected baby spiders from Hunan parks, raised the animals and discovered three new species of Mesothelae spider, a study said. Photo from Zhang, Chen, Li and Xu (2023) Sometimes ...
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