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A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion constellation reveals about the life cycles of stars. Time now for our science ...

It is, in fact, impossible to rid an area of spiders for any length of time because new spiders soon recolonise a house if ...

What has eight eyes and stalks its prey like a cat? It’s not a weird science fiction monster; only a small, frequently ...

Learn more about one of the UK's most common spiders, the daddy long-legs (cellar spider), that you'll find in your home all ...