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Spiders filmed climbing through the sky

February 13, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

If you don’t like spiders, don’t watch this video, because it is truly terrifying for arachnophobes. A man in Brazil filmed thousands of spiders seemingly skittering across the sky. They’re […]

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Animals, Science News, Uncategorized, Weird Science

One rockin’ spider

January 21, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

It turns out California is an Eden of biodiversity for spiders. Director of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History and taxonomist Jason Bond has identified 33 new species in […]

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Animals, Ecology, Science News

More on the mysterious puppeteer spider

January 17, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Remember this crazy decoy-building spider? Of course you do, you couldn’t forget something so awesome. Turns out that Destin, the guy behind the Smarter Every Day video series, was on […]

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Animals, Science in Chicago, Science News

The ultimate spider fake-out

December 19, 2012by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

If a kid is clever enough to stuff their pillows under the covers in vague approximation of their body shape when they sneak out at night to egg a house […]

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Animals, Science News, Weird Science

Goodnight, sweet spidernaut

December 4, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Nefertiti was a spider that boldly went where only a few spiders went before, so it’s safe to say she had a pretty full life. The 10-month old “Johnson jumper” died […]

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Animals, Science News, Space

Making music with spider silk

November 30, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Continuing in the let’s-just-steal-this-from-nature vein, researchers are Boston University, MIT and Tufts University are looking at spider silk. It’s one of the strongest substances on Earth, even stronger than steel, and […]

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Animals, Science News, Technology

How the web is changing technology…no, not the internet

October 16, 2012by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

If Charlotte the spider were more than a children’s book character, she might one day be able to get a job in Silicon Valley. That’s because scientists and tech researchers […]

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How Things Work, Medicine, Science News

An ancient attack frozen in time

October 9, 2012by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

A 100-million year old wasp saw its final moments in the waiting jaws of an orb-weaver spider, but things didn’t exactly play out that way. Just as the juvenile spider […]

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Animals, Natural History, Science News

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