Among the most common spiders found in and around the home, the shy grass spider (aka a funnel-web spider) builds dense, silk-lined webs/burrows to trap its insect victims. They’re also super fast ...

Many animals possess the fascinating ability to change colour. Chameleons adjust nanocrystals for temperature control and ...

Keith Houston’s Face with Tears of Joy, a lively account of those little yellow faces, reveals the peculiar science behind ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a ...