A team of psychologists at the University of Manchester, in the U.K., working with a colleague from Mohammed VI Polytechnic ...

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered ...

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On this week's episode: bone collector caterpillar, dolphins pee on each other, using cars to sample air, and obsidian ...

Even though Spider-Man has seen a lot of big-screen iterations across the past few decades, Tobey Maguire's version of the ...

We all dust away cobwebs, but the structures serve a vital purpose for spiders to filter out loud ambient vibrations in urban ...

Spider-Man presents itself throughout multiple comic book publications, TV shows, and movies. Such powers in each adaptation surpass the regular Peter Parker capabilities.

A newly described species from Hawaiʻi hides itself with carcasses to avoid getting eaten by spiders. Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn ...

Here, Daniel Rubinoff and colleagues describe a newly discovered Hawai'ian predatory caterpillar species –the "bone collector" – which lives exclusively within spider webs tucked into tree hollows and ...

It is about the length of a fingernail and feeds on insects trapped in spider webs. “Only 0.13 per cent of all caterpillars on the planet are carnivorous,” says Rubinoff. “So it is ...

There it resides exclusively on cobwebs spun by spiders in logs and rock cavities. As the caterpillars skulk about the webs, they scavenge dead and dying insects and other arthropods ensnared in ...

Spiders provoke diverse emotions ranging from fascination to fear, yet these remarkable arachnids contribute significantly to various ecosystems, primarily through their intricate web designs. Webs ...