Tag: spiders
A Flea Circus of Small Animal Acrobats
Small animals amuse and amaze scientists who take a close look at them in action. Sometimes it requires a high-speed camera to analyze the trick.
Science Uprising — In the Year of the Mask
The series is aimed at reaching Generation Z. And wow, not least in this year of isolation, worry, and conflict, do young people need it!
Don’t Be Frightened! It’s Just a Spider
It’s going to be a different kind of Halloween. Socially distant trick-or-treating? And somehow masks seems less festive in 2020.
Make Like a Scorpion, and Other Arachnid Designs
Long shunned for their bites and toxins, arachnids are gaining respect for biomimetic inspiration.
In Episode 3 of Secrets of the Cell, Michael Behe Tests “The Power of Evolution”
The planthopper bug has gears in its legs that permit it to jump what in human terms would be like vaulting the length of two football fields at one go.