Centipedes are often described as aggressive predators, but their effectiveness depends on direct comparisons with other ...

Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

For the longest time, South America's amber deposits lacked one thing, and one thing in particular, and that's bugs. But a September 2025 study in Communications Earth & Environment describes 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 ...

Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...