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1,180 results for: Spiders

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  2. December 21, 1946

  3. Earth

    Greenhouse Gassed

    Scientists are discovering that more carbon dioxide in the air could spell disaster for plants and the animals that love to eat them.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  4. Hey, we’re richer than we thought!

    The latest inventory of life in the United States has turned up an extra 100,000 species of plants, animals, and fungi.

    By Susan Milius

  5. Spider real estate wars: Wake up early

    Big spiders in a colony get prime real estate day after day by spinning webs early.

    By Susan Milius
  6. Agriculture

    Bt corn variety OK for black swallowtails

    The first published field study of butterflies and genetically altered corn finds no harm to black swallowtail caterpillars from a common corn variety.

    By Susan Milius
  7. Earth

    The Case for DDT

    What do you do when a dreaded environmental pollutant saves lives?

    By Janet Raloff
  8. Health & Medicine

    Yet another reason to hate ticks

    Ticks are tiny disease-carrying parasites that should also be classified as venomous animals, a new study argues.

    By Sarah Zielinski

  9. Hungry spiders tune up web jiggliness

    Octonoba spiders tune the sensitivity of their webs according to how hungry they are.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Science & Society

    Humans’ living creations put on display

    The Center for PostNatural History, a museum that opened in 2012, features Freckles and other organisms altered by humans.

    By Cristy Gelling

  11. A Fly Called Iyaiyai

    All that Latin has its light side.

    By Susan Milius
  12. Anthropology

    Monkey Business

    They're pugnacious and clever, and they have complex social lives—but do capuchin monkeys actually exhibit cultural behaviors?

    By Sorcha McDonagh